Celtic have lost in the game immediately after three of their previous four European games, shipping nine points which could be crucial in determining the destination of the championship, so it was not surprising they were below par for much of the game yesterday. Fortunately, the Aberdeen goal came early enough to allow Celtic time to raise their game and respond.
How Celtic respond after European games will become even more crucial in the weeks ahead as they have visits to Motherwell, Dundee United and St Johnstone due after our next three Europa League games. Any slim championship aspirations will be extinguished in these games if Celtic are unable to improve performance for the league challenge.
Ally McCoist is defying early predictions and grinding out impressive results for Rangers, who will seldom have started the league with such an impressive defensive record. Six away wins from six games without conceding a goal is the kind of form it takes to win leagues.
Our more immediate challengers, Motherwell, dropped two points on Saturday, meaning we can go two points clear of them if we win our game in hand, however, the teams meet at Fir Park a week on Sunday (three days after Celtic play Rennes), in what looks like being a key game in our season.
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BlantyreK
I am looking at the world through boozesoaked eyes and a sclerotic disposition.
Leave me to my misery.
Once that clears I will post my alternative view of the Universe. But for the moment my depression is complete. For what you suggest to actually occur requires imagination, vision and passion. Celtic are a PLC run for the shareholders by the major shareholders. They have none of the necessary characteristics to deliver a future beyond the sad dreich vacuum we are about to suffer. Professional Football clubs are just businesses now, and will prosper and die just as all business have done. How many big organisations thriving in 1888 are still part of society’s fabric.
I am afraid that I have accepted that the football world of oversized wallets and undersized principle doesn’t want, need or give a Lillian Gish about Celtic. We may be witnessing the final decades of anything that resembled ‘Celtic’ as we imagine it to be.
Over on Etims it was pointed out the irony of £3.50 for a cheeseburger at the club founded to feed the poor. We are finished! Doomed.
hail hail
Estadio
See when whytie signed the contract to take over the hun, who would have goten the pound ?
Would minty pocket it, or Lloyds ? assuming he handed over the pound that is.
quonno – perhaps we should be a little circumspect in questioning the character of those associated with an other football club
Nope. I’m not going to let you off that easily. The points you raise against Celtic are pathetically desperate, none of them carries any hint of illegality or impropriety.
Celtic isn’t owned by a mysterious figure who has literally dozens of failed businesses behind him over the past 10 years alone.
Celtic isn’t owned by a man who was banned from being a director for seven years.
Celtic isn’t owned by a man who refuses to do the decent thing and pay his employees, even after they won an action against him at an Employment Tribunal.
Celtic isn’t owned by a man who appointed fake auditors to sign off the accounts of one of his (now, predictably, failed) businesses.
Celtic isn’t owned by a man who was in business with a convicted fraudster.
Celtic aren’t hiding behind the couch while a queue of angry creditors forms at the door.
Celtic aren’t being dragged through the courts like some poor, wretched miscreant.
In short, Celtic definitely isn’t owned by a man who gives every appearance of being a thyroid-challenged chancer.
It seems the huns have finally found the owner they deserve. (thumbsup)
The matter of TFOD entering administration seems a matter of timing rather than anuything else. Can someone confirm if the 10 pt deduction is verbotim. I seem to remember the initial discussion (possibly featuring Gretna) that there was no hard and fast rule. The matter would be decided at the time. There have since been precedent namely Gretna and Livingston being relegated to Div 3 and Dundee being deducted 25 pts (all be it at the second time of going into admin). Therefore, whatever deduction is not clear.
The biggest difficulty they face will not be any points deduction but continuing to trade with a proper squad. If they simply owed the pie seller et al monies (and office staff) they could effectively walk away and start again but there is no chance HMRC accepting a small payment in the pound when they know they can force the sale of top players and then ensure a lease back on Ipox.
They will resurface very quickly but I will happily see them go down at least in the short term. I don’t buy the competetion element (although I normally agree with much Estadio says). I have just finished reading The Last Werewolf (clue is in title), it’s rubbish. The story goes that hunters have been so succesful in eradicating the werewolves that they are now facing unemployment and a core try to repopulate the species. A lot of tosh and the same goes for saving der Hun.
As when they resurface we should campaign that the newco is called Ranjurs to assist there “new” fans spelling of the new club.
From RTC.
salah al din says:
25/10/2011 at 12:58 pm
From KDS
Well spotted by Fitzpas. Registered today at Companies House:
Name & Registered Office:
GLASGOW RANGERS FOOTBALL CLUB LIMITED
1 BISHOPS COURT LINCOLNS INN LINCOLN ROAD
CRESSEX BUSINESS PARK
HIGH WYCOMBE
ENGLAND
HP123RE
Company No. 07821463
Status: Active
Date of Incorporation: 25/10/2011
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Company Type: Private Limited Company
Nature of Business (SIC):
None Supplied
PFAyr
You’re right in that it isn’t very exciting but fascinating at the same time as I can see parallels with whats happenning at Ibrox and some of the cases we are studying.
e.g. The assignment we have to do is about an MD of a company who was sacked and is claiming unfair dismissal. The company he was sacked from are facing serious financial difficulties.
Mort
TTTT
I hope so to.
I agree again with what BK said, this will be about infrastructure and a global TV draw.
I also believe that the big clubs will have a vested interest in Sion winning their case against uefa, if they do win, the gloves are off.
Now that is an interesting post from RTC
Why would somebody register a new company name for Rangers?
Dare I say it so they can prepack?
Tick Tock till the history is wiped
Kitalba
Actually there is another company called Glasgow Rangers Limited incorporated on 25/10/11. Why would anyone want to create 2 completely new companies on the same date when there are already a plethora of corporate entities concerning the Govanites?
plotthickens CSC
TTTT 12-21
half of my lunch is now all over my desk …nice one :¬))
Estadio,
I’m a little more optimistic about what the future may hold for Celtic. Ultimately football will follow a model comparable to the North American model, and as such we’ll be a valuable franchise – perhaps even more so without a serious version of Rangers to tag along on our coat heels.
That said, i’m reading your post with a sense of relief… Lawells comments about the state of play in Scotland should be the first and only thought of a serious Celtic fan. Whilst we get bogged down in fantasy manager scenarios, wishful thinking and staring endlessly across town at the unfolding fiasco, we almost never talk about what’s most important.
The fact that the SPL is crumbling around us and we’re being dragged down with it. Every backward step Rangers or Hearts take is another we’re forced to take ourselves.
I mean I’ve been beating this drum for a good few years now, but, my credibility among a certain, and sadly now, dominant contingent on CQN renders my opinion worthless.
Still think we should keep a track-record of messed up opinions, like who thought Ben Hutchison was a better bet than JVH. Who thought McManus and Caldwell could be easily replaced. And who thinks the CEO is deliberately downsizing the club because it suits his contract/bonus/anti-Celtic agenda.
Better to understand where someone is coming from.
kit
What does that mean ?
Why register a company today, are they not already registered ?
Kitalba, hoopeddreams
Interesting that both those new companies are registered at the same address in England. Hmm…
hoopeddreams:
Mate, I don’t know I only copy and pasted it. Is there any value or veracity in it? Time will tell.
My money is deffo on this week
kitalba says:
Definitely true. I just checked Companies House.
kitalba
Believe me, it’s all genuine. You can check it yourself if you go to the Companies House website. The basic information is free.
BontyBhoy:
I, for one, don’t think your opinions – or posts – are worthless but sometimes your posts can grate.
I’d rather you posted than not.
If you want to prepack the company you need a new one to transfer the assets to.
Whyte did say there will always be a Rangers and they will always play at Ibrox…he is keeping his word.
RogueLeader – Whyte did say there will always be a Rangers
The poor will always be with us. (thumbsup)
Odds on seeing a cracked rangers crest in a paper anytime soon?
Anyone…………………….
Maybe it’ll just be one on fire or with a ‘closed’ sign over the top of it. Here’s hoping!
I for one don’t care who our rivals will be in the future. I couldn’t care less if it is new rangers, hearts or anybody else. All I know is that Celtic have already proven in the past that they are too big to fail, that our family won’t let it happen. We have been at death’s door and turned it around. We won’t ever let it happen to us.
Scottish football is just about to change forever, the buns are about to die. There are too many people that hate us in this country for who we are so there is no way that we will go on without a bitter rival. It’s just not possible. This is the end of something brutal and the end of something special.
Hail hail.
Vive le Celtic.
D’oh, The start of something special!!!
RobertTressell – Vote Yes for Strike Action on 30th November – Presumably the entire rotten edifice of Ibrox will implode and be sucked back into the evil alternate dimension from whence it came. (thumbsup)
if they go into administration, what happens with the season tickets, do they have to pay agian for the remainder of the season
I shall believe it when I see it.
In fact I shall pour myself a glass of e-Bollinger to toast their demise.
That company is registered in England. Under the Companies Act an English company cannot move its registered office to Scotland (or Scotland to England). Not sure the registered office has a particular impact on football rules or registrations, but just an odd thing to do given a registered office can be any address, I’d have thought a Scottish lawyers address or even a listed building down Govan way would have been more appropriate.
that company says glasgow rangers, if im correct im not completely sure their name is rangers fc is it not?
Estadio
You need to spend a day in the company of the community people at Celtic or the Charity Foundation mate. Would restore a bit of faith :).
Communication and PR is poor from Celtic but some of the work the Club does is special.
As Friday approaches it will begin to feel like childhood again. Will they stay afloat? Can they meet the wages? ‘
‘It’s friday, it’s five o’clock, and it’s Crackerjack!’ Yup, I expect Stewpot to present the BBC Scotland News live from Ibroke and have all sorts of games for kids to play to raise money for the Orc players’ wages.
I also expect a bit of hand-wringing from some in the Celtic support feeling bad about Hun employees losing their jobs.
I’ve tried to accept that in a compassionate humane fashion but, y’know, take the Devil’s buck and all that…
If it were us, they’d be throwing sash-bashes everywhere.
Above all, there will be an interesting decline in Hunfiltrators on this blog.
Expect to see confident, snide and mischevious posts gradually descend into bitter abusive rants and then, as reality hits them like the tons of ugly bricks in the crumbling Ibroke facade, no more than long vowel-riddled wails…
And even if Friday passes without drama, I’ve waited long years since standing in the Jungle listening to the hordes of Satan bait us, wincing at the horrible wall of sound which punctured the millisecond silence after they scored against us, watching their silver-spooned fatboy pompous-ass of a chairman mock our spending power, reading the gushing sycophancy of the Hun meeja; long years waiting for what’s coming…
…Long years relishing the day those servile, witless, wretched bigots tasted the cold karmaic dish of bitterest sweet revenge served up by the will of a million gold-hearted faithful suffering Tims past and present…Long, long years.
And now we’re nearly there. And I can’t wait.
BlantyreKev – I’d have thought a Scottish lawyers address or even a listed building down Govan way would have been more appropriate
I’d have thought some sort of hostel, or maybe a fake building made out of papier-mâché, or maybe the offices of Gamblers Anonymous, would be appropriate. (thumbsup)
Might there be two Centre backs with a very good track record in the SPL and free scoring centre forward available soon,already settled in the country.hmmmmm
Danso1888 – the old one was Rangers FC….I think we all now know what the new one is called.
Sandman Is Neil Lennon – If it were us, they’d be throwing sash-bashes everywhere.
I distinctly remember a lack of hunnish hand-wringing in 1994.
In fact quite the opposite, they were revelling in the thought of Celtic going under. (thumbsup)
On this business of the apparent registering of multiple (alternative) names for the present incarnation of the soon-to-be-wound-up Foe Malign …
Can any of you guys who might know these things please explain how much detail must be filed with Companies House concerning the party apllying to register a new company? How much information does such an application need to disclose about the peepil making such an application?
FF
Sandman Is Neil Lennon says:
25 October, 2011 at 13:25
What he said.
Maybe this is whytes cunning plan – to move them to London and join the North Surrey Unipart League!!!
Blatyrekev might a local address have given a focus for the pitchfork weilding orcs to roll up to.?would any local lawyers office really wanted tainted with that?