The Scotsman did an interesting article today on the fact that recent attendances at Celtic Park have fallen well short of the circa 46,000 paid for tickets, the majority of which are season tickets. It touches on several issues.
Suggestions that a league in which Celtic inevitably process to the title is less attractive to the spectating public than a league with a competitive challenge is not a surprise. It would be bizarre otherwise.
Still, many Celtic fans continue to support the club for a whole variety of reasons: we want to see it prosper, we enjoy going to games with our family and friends, and, unsurprisingly, we enjoy watching football.
Anyone who doubted that attendances would soften after Rangers were liquidated should have widened their survey sample. For most of us, this was a welcome change. The joys of beating Rangers were undeniable, but most of us have a deeper relationship with Celtic.
The Scotsman predict that in the event there was never a “team called Rangers in the top flight” Celtic would endure some serious downsizing. If we remained within the confines of Scottish league football this is undeniably true. So what? There would be little competition, less income, fewer signings and more promotion from the youth team.
In this scenario there would inevitably be fewer Champions League nights too, but in the big scheme of things, would we want it any other way? Of course not. Celtic will be there, in sunshine or in shadow, playing football and paying their bills. I’d sign up for this right now.
There is, of course, the question of how welcome our continued presence in Scottish football would be with the prospect of not just winning 10-in-a-row, which I hear our favourite Sevconian, Ally McCoist, is now discussing as a possibility, but the realisation that 10 would soon become 20, or 30-in-a-row.
All Celtic can do is continue to win football matches, pay their bills and see off all challengers. The game here is irrevocably broken; the consequences of this will continue to emerge in the months and years to come. All we know for sure is that Celtic will prevail, no matter which scenario plays out.
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Hey Jude……
Dalziel can’t string two sentences together.
He makes Oor Macca sound like Professor Brian Cox.
Come to think of it….Did Macca not used to be an agent once?
ryecatcher
23:46 on 30 December, 2013
Nope. How about you?
Ryecatcher
I think Armstrong would walk into our team if Joe goes?
Oldco believe it or not had a good scheme a few years ago,if you couldn’t use your ST and told the TO a couple of days before a game,the Club would re-sell your seat and you get a £10 credit to next years ST.
Attendances noticeably down over the past few weeks.
Suddenly M.S.M. correlate this to the absence of the hun.They`ve had the story on ice for about 18 months.
Armageddon ya bass.
Their much anticipated glee at these statistics is matched only by P.L.bashing “I told ye so” Celtic supporters.
Fine company they keep.
Rex Hunt…..
What a Stunt./a>
I love fishing and I defo miss hilvis. ——p
BB
Was that a full price resale?
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
00:09 on 31 December, 2013
probably more to do with Morton and historic gubbing in CL
Mags….
Not quite.
Depends if anything interesting or controversial prompts me to comment before I hit the sack around 1 ish.
Watched a prog today I recorded abt a month ago called No Fire Zone. It was about the war in Sri Lanka The government told people to go to this area abt 70sq mile in size and they wd not bomb it. Thousands did and thousands died because they bombed it. Then they told them to go to another area that wd be safe from bombing. They bombed that too and thousands died. UN reckon over 100000 people died in this genocide.
My point is you might ask. These murderers will be in Glasgow in 2014 at the C W games shaking hands with all and sundry.
I hope Celtic are aware they might be in Celtic Park for the opening.
Delaneys…
Haven’t seen Armstrong but heard good reports.
TBH…..was kinda hoping that Biton or Rogic would fill Ledley’s boots.
macjay1,
Hail Hail fine Celt, say hail hail to another Fantastic Celt doon under.
Cars?/a>
oops
!!Bada Bing!! (00:06)
…as long as you didn’t tell the tax man!
Test?
DD-Aye,club made money you got a credit towards next ST.HH
bigchipsuk-aye ,a scam in there somewhere
aah thats better,
macjay1, the Temple Mount. What is going on?
redcoo.csc
Margaret McGill
00:12 on
31 December, 2013
Undoubtedly that would be one factor among many.
Fair weather attenders?
D D
Heard Mrs J say she wd give her life for me. Well actually she said. Ill swing for that barsteward.
Night all. H H
ryecatcher
00:13 on 31 December, 2013
ok. No probs.
HH
paolosboots fc before plc
00:00 on 31 December, 2013
Can’t disagree with any of that. The club needs to re-connect, or rather the board does.
Early days for JPT, time will tell if the board are willing to listen to what we are relaying via JPT.
Jude, £26 is the price of a ticket for Wednesday for a full paying adult.
Hey Jude….
I’m sure Celtic Plc are aware that the head of a family responsible for murdering thousands of Irish men ,women and children will also be in the building.
The soup takers will fall over themselves to ensure that Ma’am is looked after very well.
GreenbrigadekeepawayCSC
Ryecatcher
Biton and Armstrong with Broonie and Kris would work as a Celtic midfield imo. Tom R at the Morton game really disappointed me. Had high hopes for the young Australian before that match. Think now that Jackson Irvine has a better chance than his compatriot. Hope they both become stars in the Hoops though.
ryecatcher
Spot on my friend.
Sleep well Timland.
Thanks for all the birthday wishes, much appreciated.
Take care and god bless.
HH
KTF
It is mad to take the guns out of the normal people, most people are normal.
The Elite inbreed and Most definitely, they are abnormal.
You wanna psychotropic Dr Ug?
Night bhoys
And from me, night all.
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
00:23 on 31 December, 2013
Possibly. I will maintain main factor. e.g. CL
played 6 won 1 lost 5 (2 a gubbin) scored 3 conceded 14 scored 3 GD -11
+ Morton 3rd round of league cup.
+ bored shafting the GB
+ continued silence on all things hunnery
+ complicit in flag bans
+ selling the spine of the team to EPL
+not playing youth
+ shop windowing Joe+Sammi
+Res 12 honest injun nothing to see here
+…….
running oot of factors.
What you got?
Jude
Loch Humphrey is 10mins fae me.
A dram awaits you and Mrs J in Clydebank, when you visit.
.
“The President,
Scottish Football Association,
6th Floor, Hampden Park,
Glasgow, G42 9A
Dear President,
The re- employment of Mr Dougie McDonald by the SFA
As I have previously written, your perceived ‘conflicted’ position has already been a cause of the contempt and suspicion with which the Scottish Football Association is now generally viewed by a wide spectrum of the football paying public.
The recently reported appointment, under your general oversight as President, of a man who disgracefully abused his office as a football referee, as an ‘instructor’ working for the SFA is further evidence of the deep-rooted propensity of the SFA to make disregard of truth, and defence of football wrong-doers, almost its hall-mark!
By so clearly signalling that those who would work for the SFA need not be persons of basic honesty and integrity, the SFA board under your leadership has brought Scottish Football administration to a new low.
Mr McDonald will no doubt feel quite at home-again.
I told you before that I think you ought to resign.
I do so again.
Yours sincerely,
…………..
Taken from T.S.F.M
Saw tomorrow’s Sun back page on Twitter.
Headline reporting Commons has been given a new three year deal.
Decent news.
SwanseaBhoy
ryecatcher
00:26 on
31 December, 2013
She was also welcomed at the Dail.(sp?)
More soup takers?
Can’t argue with the ole’ U.N.
Agenda21csc.
Serious question….
Does anyone really give a feck about the Commonwealth Games?
Will anyone actually watch events which on a global scale,are the equivalent of 2 bouncers, from rival pubs ,having a scrap to find out who’s the hardest guy in the street?
A vanity project for parasite Glasgow politicians.
WillcostthenextgenerationafortuneCSC
The Global Police State is a cominYEEEEHAaaaaa.
Satan is now exposing many, many are feeling queesy.
God is the most Amazing FATHER.
MacJay
Peacemakers I would hope.
Love thy enemy?