I’ve seen a bit of chat on where Dave King’s promised overinvestment is, since Celtic humbled his team on Saturday. Let’s be clear, Newco are overinvesting.
Senderos, Barton, Hill, Kranjcar are all earning over £750k, Barton significantly so. They signed a further seven during the transfer window. Running costs are eye-wateringly high for a club without significant income streams from Europe, television or merchandising.
The £30m PR bluster, which the new board used while trying to unseat the Easdales, can now be seen for what it was, but this level of expenditure is pretty much as high as is practically possible without a lunatic Sugar Daddy. In fact, if we were running with similar numbers, I would screaming at you that we need to cut back for fear of insolvency.
Four years ago someone in the game suggested to me the Rangers group of clubs were fatally wounded, despite selling over 30,000 season tickets for the Third Division. The reasoning being that the brand depends on an air of success, and would crumble under sustained, unrelenting, mediocrity.
I’ve been saying for four years, most people haven’t began to realise the far reaching consequence of what happened in 2012. “Getting back” (sic.) isn’t about reaching top flight football, it’s about having the budget to be able to compete with Celtic, who could turnover around £50m more than Newco this season.
Where do you even begin to tackle a problem like that?
No Sugar Daddy will make the multi-season investment required. Insolvency remains a real danger for any club running a deficit in double-digit percentages of its turnover, without robust borrowing in place (or a genuine billionaire acting as backstop, if required).
The non-football costs of running a club at Ibrox and Murray Park (an albatross) are significant and comparable to costs at Celtic Park and Lennoxtown. This leaves income available for football comparable with Hearts, Aberdeen Hibs and Dundee United.
The real conundrum is, do you accept your place and live within your means, or risk insolvency trying to catch Celtic? I don’t think either scenario is a viable option. You can make your own mind up about the viability of the football club.
I’ve not mentioned the toilets on Saturday, which is no more than you expect, but I did expect better than the dummies (which have been shamefully exploited to represent something they were not). Could the Seville experience happen now? Nope. This should concern us all.
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Oldtim
Aye no Dundee Utd, both games they beat us 3-2.
HH
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 12TH SEPTEMBER 2016 10:42 PM
Ex-Rangers star Weiss wants Celtic to ‘fail’
Former Rangers winger Vladimir Weiss has written off Celtic’s Champions League chances, admitting he wants to see the club “fail” in Europe because he “doesn’t like them”. The now Al-Gharafa player said: “Celtic are the weakest team in their group and they will find it very difficult to pick up any points. I hope they don’t. I hope Manchester City [another of his former clubs) can win both matches against them. It would be good to see that happen because, if I’m being really honest, I don’t really like them.” (The Sun)
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MACJAY
Yes somebody referenced that earlier but didn’t name the wee scrote that said it. I thought it would have been Weiss as I knew he was playing out in that neck of the woods. The point the earlier CQN poster mad was that it was typical that one of the Hun smsm would go out of his way to seek Weiss’s opinion. What did Weiss ever achieve in football?
I hope the donut goes to the Barca game and gets goaded by Barcelona fans in a sorta Scottish Cup semi final kinda way.
Then maybe Celtic can call the CL home next year or is that kind of response only for the OF?
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/shocking-footage-shows-rangers-yobs-8820073
A video from Level5 – Lessons in Love – (or was that Level 42?)
Enjoy
JF,
To comment on their faux outrage….is legitimising it…..
letitgoCSC
FTSFA
HH.
Im confused splainit to me sumbdy.
Coffins are ok?
Cum buckets unacceptable?
wtf?
The Record –
“A section of the home support have also been heavily criticised after disgusting effigies of hanged fans of the Ibrox outfit were spotted in the stands.”
do we know for sure that the dolls were fans of the Ibrox outfit.
they might have been Chelsea fans ?
Enjoying the last cigar of the holiday here. Didn’t enjoy my 5K this morning in suffocating humidity or was it the beer from last night?
more blood letting on here tonight doesn’t lift the end of holiday gloom, however tomorrow the sun will shine again and I may just see a few minutes of our club go toe to toe with Barca tomorrow night before the return flight.
maybe we should all enjoy the good times a bit more? We have enough enemies out there, stand together, do the right things and we will do alright.
That will be all from me till I hopefully land back in Glasgow early on Wednesday morning, all the best.
Hail! Hail!
Aye….they dolls wer fans….till they hanged themselves in disgust ;-))
FTSFA
H.H
So the MSM turn on Warburton.
And the supporters turn on us.
Great day for DK!
THEORIGINALSADIESBHOY on 12TH SEPTEMBER 2016 10:52 PM
The highlight of his career was mimicking Sammi`s penalty miss.
Particularly offensive. As he intended it to be .
A phrase from the `50s.
Poison Dwarf.
:-)
Good Evening folks
143 teams entered week 2 of LMS8 including 4 teams that removed their week 1 defeat from their history. Gone!!!! Finito!!! Never happened!
So with an easy win out there in the fixtures, only 30 teams decided to pick the home win at Paradise.
61 teams were made to sweat, but got there in the end with the Jambos
So well done to the following 95 teams that move successfully onto week 3.
Big Al Celtic
TheLurkinTim Hearts
TheCelt45 Hearts
Lionsroar67 Hearts
Timabhuoy Celtic
Bjmac Celtic
Celtic Rose Hearts
twinbrookbhoy Hearts
Norfolk Enchants Hearts
Hamiltontim Celtic
Mrs GFTB Hearts
Miss dim sam Hearts
CM67 Hearts
AuroraBorealis79 Celtic
Dan Hearts
Danny Mac Hearts
Colour Blind Bhoy Celtic
Moonbeams WD Celtic
Lennybhoy Hearts
The Tim Reaper Hearts
FC Alessia Celtic
Roundstone Cowboys Hearts
stpatricksbhoy Hearts
Tully57 Hearts
Red Den Hearts
Celtic Soul Brother Hearts
vfr800a8 Hearts
Angelgabriel Celtic
Delaney’s Dunky Hearts
Gazolla Hearts
Gearoid1998 Hearts
Channelislandcelt Burn Hull D
Magnificent Seven Celtic
Smashing Milk Bottles Hearts
Tir ar Noo Hearts
gordybhoy64 Hearts
Fleagle1888 Hearts
Bigshuggy Hearts
Janice67 Hearts
Jungle Jim Hot Smoked Hearts
josiebee Celtic
Winealley Warriors Celtic
Realnineinarow Hearts
GreenLion2 Celtic
Sipsini Celtic
Doc Celtic
jippys bhoys Hearts
TravelBhoy Hearts
The Exiled Tim Hearts
Elharto Hearts
elhartos reserves Hearts
Winning Captains Jnr Celtic
LiamInToronto Hearts
LukesGoodCeltic Hearts
Everey Day’s A Scoolday Hearts
Celticrollercoaster 2 Celtic
Greenpinata Celtic
Paddy McCourt CSC Hearts
Bada Bing Hearts
Lee Wallace Snitchy McSnitch. Celtic
QOTSA75 Celtic
Marty Hearts
Martybhoy59 Hearts
EKs Holy Goalie Celtic
Hanheart Hearts
MikeinToronto Hearts
embramike Hearts
Cowiebhoy Hearts
bognorbhoy Hearts
Cosy Corner Bhoy Celtic
Paddybhoy1888 Hearts
Patrick27 Hearts
Saltires en Sevilla Hearts
Mouldy67C St Johnstone
Big Archie Celtic
The Lurker Celtic
GG Hearts
Koln Celt Hearts
Inchture bhoy Hearts
Stephen Black Celtic
Blantyretim Hearts
Saint Stivs Celtic
Murdochaulandhay Celtic
Stevie67 Hearts
Stoogebhoy Hearts
Bhoing Bhoing Hearts
HunderbirdsAreGone Hearts
Stevie H Hearts
Graffitionthewall Celtic
Jimmynotpaul Hearts
Setting Free The Bears Celtic
Vmhan Celtic
Wee Viv Hearts
Deccyrollercoaster Everton
HenriksHaircut Everton
And we say ( a temporary goodbye?) to the following 48 teams, who are busy studying their history to see if it can be re-invented :-)
Bigger Chas Aberdeen
Biggest Mac Chelsea
AndyF Aberdeen
Thoms Sellick Chelsea
Whitedoghunch Aberdeen
Wilson wonders Chelsea
CiaranF Chelsea
The Token Tim Dundee
dessybhoy Chelsea
DougC Aberdeen
Jeez_I_Thought_Blinker_was_pants Ross Co
Dennistoun Dhark Aberdeen
gerryfaethebrig Chelsea
Onemalloy Aberdeen
Zico Maltese Bhoy Aberdeen
Scottys Toon Army Ross Co
kelvinbhoy Aberdeen
jamabhoy Aberdeen
Cathedral View Aberdeen
The Mentalpause Ross co
JT-Ghirl67 Chelsea
Mrs Martybhoy59 Aberdeen
Jimbob71 Chelsea
Jobo Baldie Aberdeen
Fess19 Aberdeen
praecepta2ndIX Aberdeen
praecepta Ross Co
Mrs CRC Chelsea
Celticrollercoaster Aberdeen
Letterkenny Bhoy Aberdeen
BMCUWP Dundee
Ndoc Chelsea
A Source Said Aberdeen
The Young Fella Aberdeen
Celtic Cutiepie & Catalpa Dundee
20 hats Aberdeen
Black Cat Chelsea
Hutchybhoy Aberdeen
londonbhoy88 Failed to select
Mouldy67B Dundee
Mouldy67A Inverness
Paolos Boots Chelsea
dim sam Aberdeen
Sheilas Sharpshooters Aberdeen
StevieBhoy Chelsea
Stephbhoy Aberdeen
pogmathonyahun Chelsea
Rantic Aberdeen
The buy-back facility is now open again for business, although we already been visited by some early shoppers :-)
Good luck in week 3
HH
CRC and Jobo
Even Keevins took time tonight to mention it was unwise for sevco to have their picture taken with a flute band.
Oldtim
I love your historical memories.
What time is Zbyszek’s flight home?
THIRDS63 on 12TH SEPTEMBER 2016 10:47 PM
Dear Vlad….the sentiment is entirely mutual!!!!!
T63
Not very nice.The boy has Asthma.
He was known in the Hun dressing room as “Vlad The Inhaler”
NEGANON2:
Lost any and all respect for your opinion considering the tenor and the tone of what you’ve posted tonight, and I’m talking about in response to me.
Your “fighting talk” is pitiful from a keyboard warrior.
See, I do this thing full time. I walk around in a city where half the people who live here would have me swinging from the rafters if they thought they could get away with it, and I do all of it under my own name. I don’t hide behind a fake one, like you, spouting fake bullshit, like you.
You call me whatever you like. You talk about “fighting or dying” as you want.
Those comments are contemptible. You call me an appeaser as you please … but don’t ever forget that I put it out there EVERY SINGLE DAY, unlike you.
coffins death gloomy past Scottish calvinistic sanctimonious ok
dolls sex life future vibrant fun sanctimonious not ok
Jude
A flute band that were there to praise a murderer of an innocent Catholic, in a parade later. Hun Scum banner was appropriate in my eyes on Saturday.
My Godson tells me to back Ross County on Saturday. A minimum of 9 Celtic supporters will be led by a fenian fae Dumbarton Rock in their team.
TURKEYBHOY on 12TH SEPTEMBER 2016 11:09 PM
THIRDS63 on 12TH SEPTEMBER 2016 10:47 PM
Dear Vlad….the sentiment is entirely mutual!!!!!
T63
Not very nice.The boy has Asthma.
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So did Hitler.
Sorry, that should read “and I’m NOT talking about in response to me.”
Think of me what you like, but statements about getting stabbed or punched and fighting and dying?
No sense of perspective or social responsibility AT ALL with those comments.
And you accuse ME of being “hunnish.”
Take a look in the mirror. I’m not the one talking like a two-bob Che Guevera.
Utter shite son. Utter shite.
macjay1 for Neil Lennon on 12th September 2016 11:19 pm
Yes but did Vladimir Weiss invade the Soviet Union?
Sky acting as The Rangers T.V here. Obviously didn’t hear any of their sectarian repertoire or see any of the You tube footage of toilets being wrecked. Thank feck for boxes or you would be paying for this pish.
Wonder how many of the Scottish press will be supporting their national champions against Barca tomorrow night????
Embramike thanks for the Hen1rik link @9.34 exposing their hunguffery.
HH
Plus ca change.
delaneys dunky.
His flight is at 20,45 pm, couldn’t have been a worse time,the football is on.
well maybe he did. No big deal.
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 12TH SEPTEMBER 2016 11:19 PM
TURKEYBHOY on 12TH SEPTEMBER 2016 11:09 PM
THIRDS63 on 12TH SEPTEMBER 2016 10:47 PM
You missed the punchline.
As such.
MMcG
Happy Birthday young yin.
Listening to Morrisson Hotel wi a doobie or 2 in your honour tonight.
HH
Just about to replay the game for the ” n th ” time.
Just can`t get enough.
Oldtim
Does Z need a lift to the airport?
I am off and could come through to pick him up.
TURKEYBHOY on 12TH SEPTEMBER 2016 11:23 PM
Yep.
But including the punchline would have detracted from mine.
James Forrest
Neganon never said any such thing. Go back and read it. He was commenting metaphorically to Delaney on standing up to the hun supporting culture in Scotland. A man of your literally abilities should interpret that way. I did. Maybe Im wrong.
MARGARET MCGILL on 12TH SEPTEMBER 2016 11:21 PM
macjay1 for Neil Lennon on 12th September 2016 11:19 pm
Yes but did Vladimir Weiss invade the Soviet Union?
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From his first name , it sounds as if his old man invaded Austria.
D D
Ta
ill spread the word!!!
The faux hun outrage is alost as entertaining as watching their shite team getting gubbed at the weekend. Blow up dolls. Whatever next?…
Delaneys Dunky on 12th September 2016 11:23 pm
I love you!
Metaphorically speaking of course!
Not in a sort of plastic doll kinda way.
Anyway I never met a phor I didnt like.:)
Turkey
Vlad the Inhaler Class!!! Oh ma sides
OLDTIM67 on 12TH SEPTEMBER 2016 10:41 PM
Paul67 etal.
I started supporting Celtic in 1953 and luckily enough Celtic won the League Championship that year but they got a bit grim to watch until 1957,when we won the League Cup that year,Can you remember that game,then a bit of a famine for Celtic Supporters until Big Jock returned as Manager in 1965.Then the glory days began,the start of nine in a row and in 1967 the Game of the Century The European Cup,the ultimate trophy that we have ever won.
Back to 1965 when Jock returned,I could feel it in my bones that Celtic were on the cusp of something great,I felt it in my bones,just as this year I have that same feeling that I had in 1965, when Brendan Rodgers signed on as Manager this season,I feel that we will go through this season with a clean sheet unbeaten in Scotland (Well there isn’t a Dundee United to stop us This season) and I think we can take some points off our three opponents in the Champions League,so I think I better start thinking about the last 16 games after the New Year and maybe on to the final in Wales.
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Most enjoyable read on the blog today.Not sure if I read it or dreamt it.Amazing post.And exactly what CQN required.
HAIL! HAIL! fhella.
Faux Hun outrage should have their own series.
Be hilarious…Like Hitler getting upset because somebody called him a Hun:)
No-one likes them, they dont care….helpful of them:)
HH
Right off to my leaba.
Maggie Breithla Shona ya little rascal.
Edb and Jnp hope test results go well. Tends to put some of the spats on here into perspective. Keep on keeping on.
HH and Up the hoooops