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Celtic are an astonishing 1/200 to win the Premiership this season; 11 games into a 38 game competition. 1/200 isn’t betting odds, it’s a borrowing strategy. The bookies are borrowing money at 0.5% for six months, an annual rate of 1%. Try borrowing at better rates than that.

Investors get a 1% tax free savings rate, which is also competitive, although they don’t get access to their money for six months without significant penalty. If borrowing rates were higher, returns offered on Celtic would improve to attract more investors. The Scottish Premiership has jumped from being a sporting event to being an investment opportunity less volatile than gold or property.

The 10 point gap between Celtic and second placed Aberdeen is the same 10 points as between Aberdeen and bottom club Ross County. We are metaphorically in a different league than even our closest challengers.

Question is, how did Celtic become the Bank of England of football? It’s not just because they are financially responsible with appropriate oversights, this helps. More importantly, they have used their financial strength to fortify the competitive product on the park. Others have been in similar situations in previous decades without the oversight, which led to enormously entertaining failure.

It might look like Brendan Rodgers has achieved alchemy over a sleeping dinosaur, but he’s only part of the story, albeit an important part. Much of the groundwork was in place when he arrived. Nine of those who started the League Cup semi-final were at the club last season, they were just not nearly as effective.

Brendan’s building on rock solid foundations. That’s what you need to build generations of domination.

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  1. !!Bada Bing!! on

    Default Sky customers with kids.

     

    Ice age 4 is available for free in the sky store. You get the DVD sent to your home and downloaded to your box.

     

    Nice wee Christmas present for the weans.

     

    Limited supply available so be quick.

  2. Toor A Loo on

    EMERALDBEE\O/ STILL PROUD TO BE AN INTERNET BAMPOT on 8TH NOVEMBER 2016 12:55 PM

     

     

    Exciting times on the park now and fans are lapping it up after a few quieter seasons under RD.

     

     

    Consequently you may be “inconvenienced” but goes with territory unfortunately you are at a live sports event not the ballet.

     

     

    However if an arse is at it all the time I understand and he/they should show fellow fans consideration.

     

     

    When we sense goals natural instinct is to jump up, it’s like that the world over.

     

     

    No offence just offering a bit of balance, hopefully.

     

     

     

    HH

  3. MoonbeamsWD 'Stand up on 15 for the GB' on

    Has anyone considered that JB may be struggling with a stress related illness? Being told to train with youths may finally have pushed him over the edge. Stress related illness does not discriminate based on employment or financial standing. The guy might really be struggling to cope with the pressure now placed on him by his employers.

     

     

    On the other hand he may be playing a blinder with regards any upcoming employment tribunal.

     

     

    But consideration should be extended to this being a genuine medical and work related condition.

     

     

    MWD

  5. lymmbhoy on

    !!BADA BING!! on 8TH NOVEMBER 2016 5:35

     

     

    Thanks for the tip……..downloaded and DVD on way.

     

     

    HH

  8. Lennybhoy on

    VFR800@GIRFUY.CO.UK on 8TH NOVEMBER 2016 12:35 PM

     

    …All the more remarkable as, as you point out, the majority of the team was there last season! As well as 9 from last year starting the league Cup Semi-final, 8 starters from last year got us a point in Germany…

     

    I made the point on here whilst Ronny was still Manager, we had then the nucleos of a good team. All we were missing was a good Manager and 2 or 3 quality player.

     

    Keep the Faith!

     

    Hail Hail!

  9. vfr800@girfuy.co.uk on

    LENNYBHOY on 8TH NOVEMBER 2016 5:58 PM

     

     

    And you were right. I liked Ronny but as time went on it was hard to watch him shrink as a man and a coach because he didn’t have the ability to have the team put his ideas into practice.

     

     

    Brendan Rodgers can do that!

     

     

    KTF

  10. Park Road 67 on

    Oh dear things not going well at Auchenhowie , Mr Joey’s stressed oot and Waggy’s overweight ! Too many world class breakfasts for Waggy methinks !!

  11. iki on

    Sevco presser

     

    ” Don’t talk to me about stress. I used to get up before I went to bed. Traded 10 zigillion shares and currencies by the time you lot were scratching yourselves on the way to the bog.

     

    I know what stress is and Joey knows naffing about real men’s stress.

     

     

    With all due respect, of course.”

  12. Lennybhoy on

    SANDMAN on 8TH NOVEMBER 2016 12:38 PM

     

    Great post, love the final bit…

     

    …Yes he was a businessman first and foremost, but he was also a Celtic fan who knew how to get a dirty corporate job done just right and we should be eternally grateful he did just that because there’s not a supercillious revisionist on here who could have.

     

    Keep the Faith!

     

    Hail Hail!

  13. Jerry Cornelius on

    Apparently MW took the spur when our Joey told him he couldnt manage a two ticket raffle

  14. gearoid1998 on

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    by Jude Collins on November 8, 2016 5

     

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    “Narrative” – I detest that in-vogue word, but it does describe what seems to be vital to unionism and the British government. Their story of the Trouhles is that the IRA started it, were finally beaten into submission after a horror-gallery of atrocities, and that the brave men and women who stood against them should be honoured by the Queen.

     

     

    Which unionists claim this? Well I’ve never heard a unionist politician tell the story any other way. Or the British government.

     

     

    But all that is now at risk, due to a huge over-reaction by the British government. You’ll know that the Bloody Sunday Inquiry took as long as it did and cost as much as it did because the British government were hanging on to documents that would have made clear what actually happened that day. Name a killing involving nationalists/republicans and you’ll find as often as not the British government is in there, hugging vital documents to its chest. Ballymurphy, Pat Finucane, the Glenanne gang killings – Britain produces the ‘national security’ card every time.

     

     

    But this time they’ve overdone it. In December 1971, a bomb exploded in McGurk’s Bar, killing fifteen people. It was a loyalist bomb, but naturally the ‘security forces’ claimed it was an IRA bomb that had gone off accidentally. That’s now accepted as the lie it was.

     

     

    Ciarán McAirt, who’s written The McGurk’s Bar Bombing, Collusion, Cover-Up and a Campaign for Truth has requested under the Freedom of Information Act that he have access to a file from the British army headquarters relating to the death of his grandmother, Kitty Irvine. The document is thought to be held in the National Archive in London, and might well throw light on the RUC’s knowledge of the McGurk’s Bar atrocity.

     

     

    The response of the British authorities? No, Ciarán, you cannot have access to that file. And the grounds? “Health and safety.” And will the document ever be made available? “Come back in 2056” is the answer. No, that’s not a misprint.

     

     

    When the British executed the leaders of the Easter Rising, they swung the Irish population’s sympathies firmly behind the revolutionaries and the course of history was changed. The British government, with this judgement, are making it clear that something very shady was going on around the McGurk’s Bar explosion, so shady that your grandchildren, let along Ciarán McArt, will be lucky to get a glimpse of the file.

     

     

    So how did that IRA-to-blame-for-everything narrative run again?

  20. BABASONICOS71 on

    GEAROID1998 on 8TH NOVEMBER 2016 6:29 PM

     

     

    Thank you for that post.

     

    I’m shocked but not surprised.Nothing is too low for Great Britain,as a poster proudly called it last week.

     

    Imperial,insidious scum.

  21. gearoid1998 on

    BB

     

    Would imagine that the boul Joey will find a way of getting it out there. Maybe he will use Lee Wallace.

     

    HH

  22. THE EXILED TIM on

    Bada

     

    Without a doubt, but knowing Joey he may well no give a monkeys, it will depend on the penalties of the clause, he may well make more if he blabs, it’s sevco we are talking about here, I canny see them making a watertight clause, can you.

     

    HH

  24. gearoid1998 on

    Babasconicos71

     

    Some of the info around MC Gurks Bar, Glennanne Gang (covered in Anne Cadwallader Lethal Allies) and the Ballymurphy massacre would make your teeth curl.

     

    HH

  26. Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas on

    Geared, more avoidance of the truth being disclosed by British governments over the years.

     

     

    I read last week about Joe Gormley leaving St Johnstone and maybe chucking football completely.

     

     

    Has he given any reasons for leaving?

  27. !!Bada Bing!! on

    BBC showing a programme just now re , crooks scamming Help for Heroes type charities, i wonder if the Huns Of Strueth will get a mention…

  33. Cowiebhoy on

    Gooooood evening CQN

     

     

    I see video Celtic is running a best 10 English men to have played for Celtic

     

    Have to be honest struggling to come up with 10

     

    But wonder if Joey Barton gets in :-)

     

     

    On a serious point the first picture is big Paul Elliot, there’s a player, hey also start with big Peter Latchford in goals – 10 years with us and never got a testimonial

     

    I would have picked big Fraser as No 1 though.

     

     

    Oh now got to ten

  36. The Green Man says SACK THE Board on

    Evening Celts

     

     

    Fergus got his wedge.

     

    Celtic fan or not….he done well on his investment.

     

    So…all in all, financial speculator who paved the way for the PLC suits, and Tories.

     

    Job Done:)

     

     

    VFR

     

     

    Yer talking mince:)

     

     

     

    HH

  37. gearoid1998 on

    Dallas

     

    Joe Gormley a bit like George Connelly in terms of character…introvert. Found the full time thing difficult and not helped by a bad pre season injury when he first signed for Peterborough. He never really recovered from that. Natural goal scorer and I felt that full time would bring him on to a completely different level.

     

    Currently back in the black North looking to go part time again and have a bit of craic with his mates.

     

    Cliftonville should be chapping at his door or outside his pad in a sleeping bag.

     

    Good tim as well.

     

    HH

  42. Ming on

    Bada

     

    thanks for the heads up on Sky – however I am waiting on ice age 5 – Permafrost in Govania Joey’s tale

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