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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ryecatcher
00:38 on 31 December, 2013
Me too. I hate the commonwealth games. Except if they were in Liverpool then I’d love it.
ryecatcher,
serious answer….
nope…i don’t give a feck.
Macjay….
The Dail has more soup takers per square foot,every day,than a Salvation Army hostel at Xmas.
Summa
Absence of the hun and comparative reduction in the need to gather every point.
Genuine concern about family finances in a concerning financial climate i.e.. cawing` canny.
Under the thumb shopping.
C.Q.N. me too-ism.
ryecatcher
00:42 on
31 December, 2013
Macjay….
The Dail has more soup takers per square foot,every day,than a Salvation Army hostel at Xmas.
Cracker!!
Same the world over,apart from ethical Oz.
Timabhouy
00:36 on 31 December, 201
Why would anyone write a letter to Campbell Ogilvie. (period)??
I know for a FAKT that they /dev/null all inbound emails with the string “integrity” in them.
Delaneys Dunky
00:40 on
31 December, 2013
MacJay
Peacemakers I would hope.
Love thy enemy?
That ,I would have hoped would have been her mission.
Zimster, Alister Bailee was a wee woman who hud a load of influenza @ the UN through the Lucifer Trust. I dinnae trust her or her Nazi roots at all at awe.
Tibet was where BlavatSKY explored.
God Save Ireland
Ryecatcher
A lot of Glasgow youth who love sport are getting excited about the Games. Some of us not so youthful Glaswegians getting excited too. My PE days at St Thomas Aquinas were in a dump called Scotstoun Showgrounds. You should see the facilities my kids and grandkids have in Scotstoun now. Wonderful.
petec
00:21 on
31 December, 2013
aah thats better,
macjay1, the Temple Mount. What is going on?
redcoo.csc
Jerusalem? Sorry,mate.
Haven`t a clue.but if it`s Israelis then I`m unlikely to agree or approve.
Delaneys Dunky
00:50 on
31 December, 2013
Ryecatcher
I regularly check the real estate adverts for Scotstoun so I can use the street cam.Saves going back.
I used to train with St Paul`s Boy`s Guild in the Aquinas in prehistoric times.
That Eastern Star, it is just as dark and demonic as all the secretive societies out there.
I Do HATE secret societies, I know I shouldnae hate but everyone knows the Masons are corrupting the World, But, it isnae that simple.
“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled, was convinci……………………………”
You Better believe that.
Space Exploration
Won’t you come home Alice Bailey,won’t you come home.
thetibetancsc.
Delaneys…
I’m all for better sporting facilities for kids anywhere.
I just think that the Commonwealth games will cost the next generation too much for too little.
If the parasite politicians of Glasgow that have failed previous generations had any sort of vision then they would regenerate a city like Manchester did on the back of previous Commonwealth Games.
I see no evidence of this any time I am back in Glasgow,with the exception of the immediate surroundings of Celtic Park.
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
00:52 on 31 December, 2013
petec
00:21 on
31 December, 2013
aah thats better,
macjay1, the Temple Mount. What is going on?
redcoo.csc
Jerusalem? Sorry,mate.
Haven`t a clue.but if it`s Israelis then I`m unlikely to agree or approve.
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A HAARP earthquake is the word on the Christian Prophecy n e t w o r k.
A lot of people wanna induce the End Times.
Carry on regardless.
MacJay
I was a Corpus Christi boy guild player. St Peter’s and us were the best teams of my era. St Pauls were poor after I transferred to CC. :)))
zimmerman – Conspiracy Theorist : Nothing more than a derogatory title to dismiss a critical thinker)- DAM Right !
01:01 on 31 December, 2013
Won’t you come home Alice Bailey,won’t you come home.
thetibetancsc.
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Gematria is trumped by Binary Finary…….
01.01
Everything is Amazing.
Thoughts?
The Control System of the ages will not go quietly,or immediately,but the house of cards will come down once we realise that we are the ones holding it up.
expect the unexpected.
Aye so it wizny chicken but pea and ham
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMnl7H6KVgY
Spindizzy
Ryecatcher
Hope you’re wrong about Glasgow’s CG legacy. I am seeing the area my children live get a huge sporting boost. World class facilities in rundown Scotstoun.
zimmerman,
Tales of the?
petec
you bet ;)
Delaneys….
I remember the obscene levels of Council Tax that Glasgow District Council used to request in a wee brown envelope,every year,when I last lived there in mid 90s.
The levels were truly disgraceful compared to any other UK City.
The guys who signed the cheques on where to spend it were the most incompetent feckas life could imagine,and god knows where they spent it.
I think the yearly rate might have been set relative to the market value of cocaine at the time,judging by the state of some of them in Chambers pub on a Friday night.
Maybe I’ve just got a thing about politicians,particularly from Glasgow,
MMcG
Thats no a Rabbit, that’s a Hare
Corruption is everywhere, steroided Rabbits/Hares.
and the remarkable thing was..after the succulent lamb it was a total sham…noo that’s clever
Ryecatcher
Knew Stephen Purcell fae my district. Know what you mean.
zimmerman,
The Smallest will make the biggest impact IMO.
Hollywood has an anti Christian agenda, if you watch films with that view, you are seeing a lot more than the sheople who watch the films from a secular point of Scooby dooo.
Lots of soup talk on here so I thought I would pipe in with my bit
Blessed are the soup takers for they shalt inherit the wonderful wonderful soup stone
soup taking should be risk free csc
Petec…..
Considering it is widely accepted that Hollywood has ermmmmm…..Zionist leanings….You’re not surprised by this agenda,are you?
Thindimebhoy
01:29 on 31 December, 2013
Stick a fork in it will ya? :)
Have a happy New Year ye all at CQN
The Wonderful Wonderful Soup Stone
petec
spot on,
time for the non-compli-dance.
Delaneys…
There was probably more of Glasgow’s Council Tax receipts spent in Bogota than their was in Baillieston when a certain leader was in charge.
Odious little drama queen.
WhitelinesCSC
About Celtic perpetuating the OF mystique in years to come – No, sorry to disagree with some fellow Celts, but I’m not buying it.
Only time will tell.
To that, here’s my prediction of an extract from p.123 of The Wee Green Book, Season 2016-17;
P W D L F A
Rangers1 305 101 85 119 402 437
Rangers2 4 4 0 0 17 0
Happy days, Celtic Forever.
ryecatcher
01:33 on 31 December, 2013
Petec…..
Considering it is widely accepted that Hollywood has ermmmmm…..Zionist leanings….You’re not surprised by this agenda,are you?
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A load of people give themselves away when theyattacktheJews.
Slinky, me thinky