Kyogo’s off-target attempt at a penalty kick on Sunday brought into focus a concern we should have ahead of the Scottish Cup semi-final later this month. Josip Juranovic started the season as our designated penalty taker, with Giorgos Giakoumakis his deputy. Neither are still at the club, meaning Aaron Mooy was promoted from third to first choice.
Aaron has done well from the spot. When he was unavailable, Jota stepped forward. The Portuguese only just evaded David Marshall’s arm with his first attempt, before dinking his second penalty down the middle. Neither left me with much comfort.
If we are faced with a penalty kick competition in 10 days’ time, and Mooy and Jota are both on the field after 120 minutes – which is unlikely – we have to hope that Kyogo is also on the field and spends much of the time between now and then practising. Your guess is as good as mine as to who would hit the fourth and fifth penalties.
In short, our third-choice penalty taker from the start of the season is now our top man. He is recovering from injury and unlikely to last 120 minutes. Ange invariably changes his forwards during the second half and would almost certainly swap out Kyogo and Jota in an attempt to win the game before extra-time completes.
If the game goes to penalties, responsibility is likely to land on novices, some of whom have low expectations of playing right now, and remember, the other side get a lot more practice taking them than we do. Celtic would be clear second favourites.
Starting from a low base, we cannot fully resolve this problem, all we can do is spend the next nine days practising from the spot. Lots.
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Bada Bing
How many crisis loans are allowed in a season?
55?
!!BADA BING!! on 18TH APRIL 2023 6:47 PM
How many crisis loans are allowed in a season?
och youi have an agenda, look what the record are calling it
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BREAKING! Rangers issue 3 million new shares as Ibrox club create cash boost opportunity
I’m sure UEFA are on the case. Unless it’s them who are buying the shares.
Is it not about spending football income, or using football income to fund new players
Is the reason the huns on the ffp watch list because they been using the soft loans to fund football
These shares then are a settling of debt and make no difference to their football spend
Except pissing of current shareholders?
SS- just sent that Hun online screenshot,…..the gullibillys will buy it,shambles of an organisation
Question – if there was a road trip tour of ireland to cover the connections with Celtic FC, what should and could be on the route ?
what should I add to the schedule
belfast – the falls road and tully plaque. the celtic mural
colraine – bertie peackock statue
newry – the new maley statue
ballymote – the walfrid memorial
coalisland – family stuff to find
donegal – find the church that mcgrory was married in.
sligo – find a sean fallon connection
what else would people recommend ?
what are known locally by the people but not well know across the broader support
all suggestions welcome.
oh, and some connections to willie mckillop does he have a memorial anywheres ?
St Stivs
A guy i know here in Leixlip is related to Br Walfrid
He told me he was offered a tour of CP but turned it down. Not into football
Could drive past his hoose if you come to my town😎
Ps Leixlip is the spot where Arthur Guinness had his first brewery (ale)
It’s a pub/hotel now where my kid goes
Only did stout in James’ Gate. Great tour in the storehouse
Saint Stivs @ 7.06
I’m curious, is this a genuine headline or a spoof?
“BREAKING! Rangers issue 3 million new shares as Ibrox club create cash boost opportunity”
I presume the latter, though its hard to tell with sevco
Uncle Jimmy- a headline from the Sun online, the same cash boost nonsense a fortnight ago,when it happened, kidding nobody………oh wait…..
CONEYBHOY on 18TH APRIL 2023 4:08 PM
with the amount of hotels being built in Glasgow (St Stivs has posted on this ) and no obvious tourist uptick; a hotel at CP would not now be viable.
*24 years ago, to great expense and against the sports park grain, a multi purpose sports arena was built in downtown Toronto, it was to house the baseball, football and soccer teams as well as other events, now it is limited to the baseball team as the other 2 have moved to another smaller and more appropriate venue which they both use.
As an aftermath a hotel was added to the stadium, with great fanfare as the ultimate viewing experience at great cost though, with 150 hotels in TO it was seen as a white elephant and was eventually taken over 6 year ago by Marriot International.
Paul M Tumilty Artist
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Apr 16
The people of Newry have unbroken connection with Glasgow Celtic…..yesterday cemented that link with the unveiling of the statue of Willy Maley….brilliant achievement thanks…..Hail Hail🍀💚
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ft3BaCcXgAMyu9t?format=jpg&name=medium
BB
Bloddy hell. That is an incredible level of financial ignorance.
The inverted logic is beyond compare
It is a real headline – and the story behind it dearie me indeed.
If your desperate to raise 750k there is something really amiss,
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Rangers issue 3 million new shares as Ibrox club create cash boost opportunity
An announcement from Companies House revealed the price point and the number of shares that have been put on offer.
Rangers will issue 3million new shares at a price of 25p each, it has been announced.
The Ibrox club will raise £750k from those shares if they are for cash but at this stage it remains unclear if they are to raise funds or if they are converting loans into equity, as they have in the past. The news was confirmed to Companies House with the shares allotted on April 3. The announcement from Companies House revealed the price point and the number of shares that are to be offered to interested parties in the Scottish Premiership side.
In the past Rangers have raised cash through the format of issuing shares. They did this in February when 4million were allotted raising around £1million, and have also issued 7.7million new shares at a price of 25p each in March. Rangers are expected to release their latest trading figures in the coming weeks.
Rangers had announced in November that they had a club record turnover of £86.8m for the year up to June and that didn’t include the big money sales of Joe Aribo and Calvin Bassey, or the money gained from reaching the Champions League group stage. At that time the club announced an operating profit of £5.9m.
Saint Stivs
Milford Donegal ,birthplace of Patsy Gallacher.HH
Ramelton ,memorial plaque Patsy Gallagher HH
Tontine
Did the Marriot survive?
I stayed in the internal Virgin Hotel in Twickenham once. Good deal as it was off season and our family do was a mile away. I expect that surges during 6 nations but must be letting the parent absorb the losses
CONEYBHOY on 18TH APRIL 2023 7:53 PM
Tontine, Did the Marriot survive?
*aye so far but it is hell of expensive still and the area is surrounded by sports bars tae, but Covid as would be expected has done a number on tourism over here.
FANADPATRIOT on 18TH APRIL 2023 7:50 PM
Saint Stivs
Milford Donegal ,birthplace of Patsy Gallacher.HH
FANADPATRIOT on 18TH APRIL 2023 7:52 PM
Ramelton ,memorial plaque Patsy Gallagher HH
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good shout how remiss of me, Patsy being one of my go to research topics.
in the mornings i go to work i pass 42 fulbar street renfrew where patsy had a pub in 1920.
coming home i pass arkleston cemetary where he is buried.
as a by the way, 42 fulbar is where the BURNS HOWFF is today, i dont know if it is the same pub i need to look for some date on the building.
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Patsy Gallagher owned a bar at 42-44 Fulbar Street, Renfrew 1920, he took over the International Bar, Clydebank in 1925 and two years later closed down the Renfrew premises to concentrate on the International bar.
Always felt that Boruc and FF had a good chance of saving penalties. Craig Gordon too.
Has Joe saved any while at Celtic? Maybe I missed it.
The footprint at celtic park is very poor and anything that improves that aspect of celtic park or barrowfield for that matter is much needed and should be welcomed by us the supporters you would expect in the main.
I get that the bottom line is important at all times but so to is fan experience and that impacts on the bottom line. The match day experience begins as soon as celtic park is in sight not once the game kicks off. There is clearly a need for more and better facilities and the club should always look to improve.
The small bar for ordinary supporters is clearly way to small.
There is no outdoor or indoor fanzone.
There is little to no entertainment.
The celtic triangle looks rundown.
The parking is awful.
The ceĺtic way should have been the beginning of the improvements around celtic park but it feels like it was the end.
The stadium could do with a wee make over, ffs the GB have shown just how easy it is to improve the envious in the stadium with little but some paint.
The plans for a museum, restaurant, bar, new store, hotel were good plans if not man city level, but at least it showed some ambition.
Can’t see any plans for modernisation and increased capacity of a main stand, despite the benefits that could be made.
We do have a winning mind you
HH
Well that’s April’s Ibrox payroll covered.
That awkward moment when Sevco have another share issue.
Googled the new uefa financial fair play rules,
“UEFA’s executive committee has approved new financial sustainability rules to replace Financial Fair Play from this June. The rules have three pillars – No Overdue Payment Rule, Football Earnings Rule and Squad Cost Rule. The No Overpayment Rule means clubs’ accounts will be checked every quarter to make sure all bills are being paid on time.
The Football Earnings Rule will allow clubs to lose €60m over three years – double what was permitted under Financial Fair Play. Clubs will be allowed to sustain an extra €10m in losses a year if they are deemed to be “in good financial health”.
And
“As part of The Squad Cost Rule spending on wages (players and head coaches), transfers and agent fees will be capped at 70 per cent of a club’s revenue. This will be assessed over a calendar year and not a season, so spending in the summer transfer window will be included in the calculations.”
The new rules come into force this June 2022 but they will be implemented gradually over three years to give clubs time to adapt to the new regulations. The 70 per cent Squad Cost Rule cap will be phased in over three years. In 2023/24 the cap will be 90 per cent, in 2024/25 it will be 80 per cent and from 2025/26 it will be 70 per cent.
Overpayment Rule means clubs’ accounts will be checked every quarter to make sure all bills are being paid on time.
good luck with that
Stephbhoy
I don’t understand the ‘footprint’ , ‘fanzone’ concept for a football game in Glasgow on a Saturday afternoon
Sounds like a US concept where people drive a pick up truck to the massive car park and BBQ all out the back and eventually go to watch the game/race in the middle of nowhere
Footie is urban, pubs and whiny singers available; 90 min game post breakfast or lunch so no need for food
Celtic Park isn’t a Texas nascar venue
Ps good to see Chelsea getting pumped by our section too seed.
We were not that bad after all
AC Milan have done a real Italian job on Napoli. My goodness they’ve parked a fleet of busses tonight.
AT – you mention the Irish/ Caribbean/Slavery history – the missus an’ me spent a very enjoyable if slightly surreal st Patrick’s Day one year in Barbados…..the amount of locals with hiberno surnames was incredible -one of the most memorable Paddy’s day we’ve spent.
HH
If only Real and Chelsea could both lose!
Frank: WhyTheWideFace? CSC
Evening all.
Busy day. Just taking in bite size chunks on here.
Some brilliant posts.
Personally not fussed about better facilities generating revenue for Celtic.
It’s all about the match day experience.
Plucked a figure out of thin air previously …. but I’d like the Celtic Park area to have sit down/food and drink capacity for 10% of the crowd. (c. 6,000)
Right now I think we’re well short of that?
So someone who is not Celtic is prepared to plough £2m into the vicinity and carry the financial risk.
In a few years time, 900 more of us get access to a match day facility.
What’s not to like?
Great to see Fox News getting pumped for $788 million
The amount of people crammed into the Oak at 11am before the hun game was ridiculous. I nearly spilt my pint.
BRRB
At least you got in 😵💫
Prestonpans
Should have seen the state of me trying to get out.🙄
Bada BING
Funny as looking thro murdoch fox every subject Fox it is tweeting about you see $787.5m deflation fig
HH
Stephbhoy and others who mention about upgrades that are needed in and around the Stadium, Barrowfield, Lennoxtown,I think it’s high time Michael Nicholson or other board members to tell the truth about upgrades if any , personally the thousands of Celtic Supporters outside on match days are treated very shabbily,that needs to rectified,