With a little over two weeks until the league campaign is underway and, more importantly, five weeks until Champions League qualification starts, Celtic’s three games in France in the coming week take on an importance beyond results.
Many of the teams we could face in the early qualification rounds have been back playing football for a month and will be at peak fitness for the European qualifiers. Celtic normally face this fitness deficit in the qualifiers only against Scandinavian opposition but there is a high probability we will face teams five weeks ahead of Celtic in match fitness.
This autumn, European football will split into the haves and the have nots. Celtic could be a team in the Champions League, picking up talent at a price not seen for a decade, or we could lose more money than at any time in our history. Champions League qualification is up there alongside winning the league as the most important objective for the club, even this season, when 10 is on the horizon.
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Paddy roberts just scored a crucial goal for boro,SSN said it’s his 1st goal in English football.
if official desmonds abacus attendance is 64,009, what would be the real attendance ?
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Lou Macari against Aberdeen’s Martin Buchan in November 1971. There was an amazing 64,000 inside Parkhead that day which bettered the much vaunted Manchester derby of Best, Charlton, Lee and Bell played at the same time. Within 14 months both Lou and Buchan were at Old Trafford.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ec5JWTFXoAIxvit?format=png&name=small
In Reporting Scotland this evening , their Political Correspondent, ( Douglas Fraser ?) was in a pub in Glasgow. Anyone know which pub it was? I think he said it was the haunt of exiled Hebrideans.
David 66
Congratulations on 30 years of marriage bliss
Believe me, your 30 years listening will stand
You in good stead when big Jimmy gets into full mode 😃😃
Tanking yer chain Jimmy , you deserve it after lockdown woes
Could have been Park Bar or Islay on Argyle st Jungle Jim, oops Hot smoked
have to say imo nothing absolutely nothing matters more this season than 10 .
HS- plenty of whisky on display
Could be Bon Accord of Ben Nevis then Bada
Not that I’ve been in any of them of course
David 66
Congratulations on you 30 years of marriage, I’ll join you in that exalted company next Monday too, wife must be mad putting up with me, since 1990 jings
JIMFORREST and ALEX WILLOUGHBY.ALEX lives in SPRINGBURN PATERSHILL RD.PUSKAS sent him his strip after REAL had beat the huns 6 nuthin in MADRID.
That was the story put out by EVENING TIMES at the time.I did not believe it but the huns lapped it up .nothing chanes .ALFREDO D gave FORREST his strip after the game in MADRID because he was so impresses with his skill and work
rate and he had a nice haircut.
OK TONTO see how easy it is just to write peoples names down instead of NO SHIT SHERLOCK CLUES.
BLANTYRETIM IS PRAYING FOR THE KNOX FAMILY on
More likely BEN NEVIS same place .
BT and BB
Thanks. I have been in The Bon Accord a few times but I am sure it wasn`t that one. The correspondent said it was a popular spot for visiting/exiled Hebrideans so, maybe it actually was The Hebridean on the Great Western Road. Anyway, enough of this !
Cherrio for now.
JJ ( Just for BT )
ACGR would probably know
SFtBs @ 4:20 PM,
Yes, the doom and gloom referred to “mineshafter” type epithets.
In all seriousness I don’t think Celtic PLC are open to suggestions* they have their model and they’ll stick with it. There is a real inertia in the Celtic Board now.
Several years ago on CQN I commented on the subscription based media service route, we were getting stuffed by the broadcasters. Imagine we had done something about it then. I’m sure we would be benefiting above the paltry £32m Scottish will recieve next season.
The SPFL/SFA would still be able to sell the rights to Broadcasters (in a non-exclusive fashion) for old firm games, cup finals etc.
The fact is, no one in Scottish football has the wherewithal to deliver this sort of proposition.
*Cafe anyone??
Congratulations David 66…
Well done Neustadt Braw, I read of your battle, immense.
Hail Hail
the LISMORE amybe
Wacthin CHELSEA and they nearly score from corner.A spare ball bounced on to the pitch from behind goal line.Now if they had scored should goal stand or would VAR have cried wolf.
ASKIN FOR ANNE FRAE EMBRA AND FIRHILL LASSIE.
A few weeks ago there were posts regarding virtual season tickets and the dilemma for fans with more than one ticket in a household.
It doesn’t look like I’ll be getting a season ticket this year. So my thoughts are that if anyone who has 2 or more in the house I could contribute on a game by game basis in exchange for access to the game until the ground is open again.
I’m 70 so would be on the basis of the cost of a concession ticket say £20 per game.
I would commit to every home game and pay per week. It would of course have to work – I’m in England – probably need to see what the rules are.
Anyone interested can you email lennybhoycfc@gmail.com who has kindly offered his contact details. It will be on a first come basis.
Think Frank Lampard has done terrific job at Chelsea.Gerrard must be raging.Stuck with the Huns,with 10 beckoning.
Thanks again bhoys for all the well wishes for me and my good lady on our pearl.
Thinking back to our big day 30 years ago in Our Lady of Good Counsil in Dennistoun, who would have imagined 30 years on a worldwide Pandemic would bring a halt to life as we knew it and took the lifes of so many.🙏
Next milestone is a Friday session with a couple of cqnr’s, 1st time in a pub in 5 months that’s another 1st.
Hail Hail
D :)
Gene – don’t think you can do that we have 3 season Tickets registered at my son in laws and only 1 code.
D :)
David 66
That’s a bummer – thought it was a win win situation
GENE
I thought they were making the games available to non season ticket holders. I don’t know for sure though.
KEEP THE FAITH
Chairbhoy
That settled model that you decry as inertia has been instrumental in consolidating the initial advantage Fergus provided, in giving us a larger stadium.
If Celtic are not open to the alternative model, but its proponents believe it is a surefire winning model, there are plenty of desperate clubs looking for any edge in a tough market.
I am beginning to feel that maybe there isn’t much to the alternative model if it can persuade no-one to give it a try.
Tonyrome
I don’t think so – it’s the carrot for the best renewal.
Chairbhoy
Celtic did not have the freedom to negotiate their own TV deal. They werre bound in with all the other Premiership Clubs and none of them would allow us to leave to get our own deal and a larger slice of a tough TV sponsorship market.
The solutions have to be real ones.
best = ST
DAVID66 on 14TH JULY 2020 9:33 PM
Gene – don’t think you can do that we have 3 season Tickets registered at my son in laws and only 1 code.
D :)
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David, what is this code you speak of? I’ve renewed but haven’t been sent any further instructions on how I will be able to access screenings of our home games.
The pub on the TV report earlier was the Ben Nevis, like BT I’ve never been there😀
A battle about an . Apo.. jot….. title
No Wonder i think Jobo is
Fundamentally Good.
Wow
David 66
You have a code? I’m still waiting. And with 2 season tickets, I’ll be expecting 2 codes. Hope you had a grand day.
HH
An American soldier having spent several weeks on the front line during World War Two was given some time off for rest and relaxation. He decided to head to London and found himself on a crowded train exhausted. He travelled the full length of the train and there was one seat beside a snooty English woman with her little dog . Ma’am may I sit here I’m very tired. The lady looked down her nose and said you Americans are so rude can’t you see my little Fifi is sitting there. He went back the whole length of the train before eventually ending up back with the lady and her dog , again he politely asked if he could sit down as he was so tired. She retorted not only are you Americans rude you are also arrogant , he then picked up the dog and threw it out the window and slumped into the seat. The woman screamed and demanded someone should chastise the soldier, An English gentleman sitting across the isle stood up and addressed the soldier you Americans seem to have a penchant for doing the wrong thing. You eat with the fork in the wrong hand you drive your Automobiles on the wrong side of the road, and on this occasion you threw the wrong bitch out of the window😀
Phil’s take on transfers:
https://philmacgiollabhain.ie/2020/07/14/of-price-tags-and-players/
I know Sky is bad.
Stephen McManus literally put his head on the floor.
Wee Gordon iis gift frae Our Lord.
Jobo may shout confidently no way we will be able to win 10 easily.
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Love is the Law.
SFtBs @ 10:01 & 10:04 PM,
Well true, the bigger stadium, season ticket sales and improved merchandising was all brought in by Fergus and has proven to be a winning formula.
The current Board have from time to time looked to improve things. Celtic TV, the Hotel, the Stadium experience, bringing in BR…
Yet it has been hit and miss, for me there seems no appetite to improve things at the moment and that’s where the inertia has crept in. It will change of course if we get offered a chance of participation in a bigger league set-up. Until then Fergus’s model will suffice.
One thing this current Board did manage to secure was exclusive rights to sell our merchandise. However as Adidas has brought JD to the party that is no longer the case. Still it’s a great deal and something this Board do very well is “partnerships”.
As Paul67 alludes to failure to qualify for the UCL could be an issue this season. One of our stated aims is UCL football but we don’t prepare specifically for it, so often fall short there. It looks like the only way we will maintain our financial performance during this pandemic crisis is UCL participation and selling a high value player.
How do we ensure UCL qualification under these circumstances?
It seems that most are happy with the ten and to take the financial hit on the chin… if Rangers have a good season domestically and in Europe it may be a case of be careful what you wish for.
Of course on the media subscription model, the SPFL would have to be involved, yet PL seems to have a great deal of influence. He could help promote a change in thinking.
Yet the mechanisms and relationships are there with the broadcasters and the old-school think of the vested self interests will always take pecedence under the current regimes. The recent end of season discussions and votes prove that.
Some are calling for change…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53405285
It is long overdue.
Hail Hail
BLANTYRETIM IS PRAYING FOR THE KNOX FAMILY on 14TH JULY 2020 8:06 PM
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Cheers mate, thanks for your kind words.
On BBC News this morning…New Spikes of COVID in Blackburn and Derby both of which are in Lancaster I believe ?
This could mean that I cant go to Blackpool if it gets worse in the next few weeks ?
HH
BLANTYRETIM IS PRAYING FOR THE KNOX FAMILY on 14TH JULY 2020 8:15 PM
Could be Bon Accord of Ben Nevis then Bada
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What is a Pub anyway ? LOL
Could the Pub be The Pot Still in Hope St, Glasgow ?
HH
PAPAJOE55 on 15TH JULY 2020 12:09 AM
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Your joke made me laugh mate..well done.
HH