So are we surprised at last nights’ defeat? There’s some surprise that we scored three goals away from home, which if we count Moscow, is becoming a habit, if an incredibly lax one, but I’m less surprised we shipped four, again. Even at full strength, we are several players short of being able to play Ronny Deila’s high-energy pressing game, so when the squad is further depleted by rest, injury and the like, we cannot expect to play an expansive game and come away with a result.
Fortunately the outcome didn’t matter, but it will next time out in this competition. I’m very supportive of Ronny and think we have not even begun to see the real benefits of his work, but he got it wrong when he opened up a game which did matter in Warsaw. We’ll need to see if he decides to play this way, with many of these players, in the Round of 32. For then we either need to add appropriate players or change tactics.
There’s been a bit of chat on how attendance figures are reported. Football clubs report paid seat sales, which baselines attendance at season ticket sales, but the ‘bums on seats’ figure is usually far lower.
The showbiz side of the game will always want to report the higher figure: see – our fans are faithful through and through, and all that. Only Manchester United and Arsenal report higher average league attendance figures than Celtic in British football. This claim maybe reliant on ticket sales, but it is an important indicator of the size, and therefore potential of our club in the right environment. Not to mention the efforts many thousands go to in order to financially support the club, in sunshine or in shadow.
It was still somewhat refreshing to hear the new newco director inform the media that his club attracted less than 16,000 people for a recent home game. The cynic would point out that if newco fall into insolvency, the excuses are already established – fans are not as loyal as they claim, blame then, not their unfortunate execs.
Many thanks for all the feedback on the 2015 CQN Annual. You can order yours here, or get a special Annual-DVD bundle here.
As a special offer, everyone who buys an Annual, or bundle, before Christmas will be entered into a prize draw for a VIP Meal of 4 at a Celtic Park restaurant on a match day. One entry for each Annual bought; pile in.
Our friends Magners, who I increasingly think get what this club is all about, have offered us another pair of Premium Tickets for the Jock Stein Stand on Sunday. It’s a great way to watch football, especially on a winter’s day. To enter the competition, email me celticquicknews@gmail.com with the name of the team Celtic play on Sunday in the subject line of your message. Competition closes at 22:00 tonight, winners will be informed by email tomorrow, so check your inbox!
The deal I have with Magners is that when we make this offer, we ask you to consider making a £1 (or more) donation to our Mary’s Meals Appeal. We are working towards building a kitchen at Chibwata Priimary School in Dowa, Malawi, which has 909 pupils and does not have food preparation facilities.
With a kitchen – and Mary’s Meals providing food – they will be able to provide primary school kids with what is often their only square meal of the day. This work cuts infant mortality, improves school attendance by an average of 30%, and increases life chances exponentially.
No matter what you do today, this £1 will do things you cannot imagine. It will make your day worthwhile.
I’ll be out with my boys on the bucket collection for the Foundation before kick off on Sunday. If I’ve not coaxed your last £1 out of you, bring another one along to the game. The spirit of Celtic needs to take care of those in our own community, as well as in one of the world’s poorest countries.
Sorry for all the calls to action todaym in summary:
The Annual, with a VIP Meal for 4 competition.
The Magners’ competition, email celticquicknews@gmail.com
The Mary’s Meals £1.
See you at the bucket collection on Sunday!
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ItaliaBhoy, I think if they implode this time, that will be that.
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Here’s hoping that’s exactly what happens. When they cease to exist I will be satisfied.
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Paul Weller
Broken Stones
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Miki67, would have been in his element today. His hun rants were exceptional:-)
Hail Hail miki67
cosy corner bhoy
23:16 on 12 December, 2014
Sixtaeseven. I was there in 44,54,64,74,84,94,&04 and will be there on Sunday!
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I’ve just realised-that’s EIGHT decades of watching Celtic.
Wow.
Mind,you’ll have seen some pash in yer time anaw!
Bonniey Ally’ss noo awa
Safely oer the friendly main;
Mony a heart will break in twa,
Should he no come back again.
Ye trusted in your Orange men,
They trusted you dear Ally
They kent your hiding in the Greigs,
Pies & Haggis eating.
Will ye no come back again?
Will ye no come back again?
Better loed ye canna be;
Will ye no come back again?
Gordon 64.
I agree, but I think ronny is a little deluded
Right off bed but just think of those Hun hordes coming up the M 74, thinking is this the end, well eventually…..”………
ACEILERGONOFRUST
Aye,MIKI67 was a one-off,sadly. Much missed.
His brother LARRYBHOY is one here occasionally too.
I wonder how TGLFW is coping,bless her.
PRESTONPANSBHOY
Better still,they will have had to pass Celtic Park on the way. All lit up nicely for them.
Eat yer liver,huns.
No way will they not exist, there is too much money to be made.
HH
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Oscar Knox, MacKenzie Furniss and anyone else who fights Neuroblastoma
23:27 on 12 December, 2014
Nothing personal – I just prefer your story telling to your selling – you know what I mean – hope your mother is well
No doubt in my mind another red herring and bag of bull being put out there by the complicit MSM and the Zombie spin doctors !!
Something is going down big time and while they portray the image that Swally is going or not going others are working a flanker to deceive and create a reasonable validity in what’s certain to happen LIQUIDATION OF THE ZOMBIE CLUB and RANKERS 3 given another crack at it !!!
Expect some news from the courts on Monday something bubbling and brewing in the Masonic cauldron.
Minty is still on the background and Charlotte the harlots tapes have gone AWOL !!!!
Now wheres Chuckles Greens Christmas message to put a smile on everyone’s face oooffftttt !!!!;)
acgr, Good of you to remember Miki67. Yes without doubt he would have a ball tonight, God be good to him, a great Celt.
WITS
RD is his own man who believes
in a certain formation.
I am not convinced by either his formation
or style of football.
But he is our manager and i will back him.
HH
Ok I’m back in, whit hiv a missed ?
Catch it later, away to ma scratcher :-)
Hail Hail
Leftie
If you’re about…..thank you.
I’ve never felt less alone.
KTF
HH jamesgang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Pf2h-oPU02g
Grace
Paddy Reilly
I read a post by HT through the week which really resonated with me. I know we get frustrated, disappointed and then sometimes flip and go the other way but in the main at the core of us all is a deep love of Celtic and our roots. These feel like exceptional times and change is upon us but ‘if you know the history’ it is incredible where we are. I on occasion, to my eternal shame, take it for granted and then I remember the hurt, the struggles, the corruption, the ecstasy and downright bloody joy…
Celtic features in my life every day: in a thought; a conversation; a blog; a match and so it goes on. The letters that make up our name and core even make me smile. Sometimes we need to remember what we have.
Hail Hail
AlCapone
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With Ally its always all about Ally.
His backs to the wall, he knows the board want him out and hes now doing what he does best…trying to look after himself and get as much money as he can screw out ‘The Spivs’ as he can..
Only one side leaked the story to the Mhedia and it was McCoist, for his benefit
He knew fine well tonight was a tough game with the fans ready to turn on him so he has turned it round, timing is everything.
Hes offered his resignation he hasnt resigned, already the mhedia spin has the man in the street saying McCoist wants to go to go but the board wont let him…..no he has offered to resign on HIS TERMS with 12 months wages in his already bulging back pocket.
By offering his resignation he has said I’m now prepared to work my 12 month notice and continue to be employed and paid for a year. He knows fine well that the board know the minute the players know he is leaving he has to be removed from the dressing room for the good of the team. So we all remember how Rangers crumbled after Smith said he was leaving after NIAR or hwo the Man U players performed when Ferguson said he was leaving the first time.
Ally ‘the spiv’ has used all his mhedia contacts today to do what hes best at after scoring goals, looking after himself and screwing as much as he can from his employers.
Only the Gullible or those with a brown brogued agenda cant see this.
H,mmm there just might be a sensible hun or two out there.
Remember that fitba film Swally made with Duvall? That story is more believable than Swally as a fitba manager.
It’s been an enjoyable day. For all the years that bassa rattled dodgy goals into us and for all the quips and digs at Celtic It’s come back to bite Swally on the erse. Pleasing!
LB
Jamesgang
Hope you are well mate. Was thinking about you today.
Take care
LB
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Willie Maley
CATB
UTLR
roy croppie
Well said amigo.
HH
BMCUWP/Corkcelt, I would have loved to have met Miki, I really liked the cut of his gib:-)
TET, ok. I’ll settle for them playing in the lower leages in front of the type of numbers the likes of Montrose get at their home games. And, I mean no disrespect to Montrose btw.
Just dropping in to say I’m very happy. I thought it was wrong not to share it.
Ard_Macha
jamesgang
Thoughts with you, I know exactly where you are coming from, time does help. HH
the glorious balance sheet
22:53 on
12 December, 2014
TET 2240-
There have been rumours in the last week or two that the Blue Knights were trying to buy over Airdrie, rebrand them as Third Rangers, and play out of Hampden.
Celtic Underground are claiming tonight that Jabba is briefing the press on behalf of McCoist so I would say the fix is definitely in.
It might be Airdrie, it might Cowdenbeath or AN Other but there is no doubt in my mind that the dregs of David Murray`s Rangers board – are already trying to take over another Scottish club and port over their brown brogues, dignity etc.
As they did with Sevco, Sally and Walturd will be the public face of this spivvery, placemen recruited as figureheads to part gullible red neck zombies from their cash and try to claim that the new club is somehow the real Rangers.
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Twas always the way out. Ibrox is an
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_u7VGiMO0U
and its time to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESy-Z8vqMrE
Roy Croppie
Paddy will not be in his usual watering hole tonight, his local shut down a couple of days ago, very unexpectidly, Muldownies in Rathcoole, along with the Submarine have been closed, both obviously owned by the same people, spec is the back have taken them back, as they were put up as collateral, and the deal that they were up for fell through.
Have you heard anything WiTS ?
HH
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Someone Somewhere in Summertime
Simple Minds
Big G Hail Hail
Gordon 64, as you know I am not convinced by ronny, don’t think he will be here for much longer, I think we could get a right doing in next European game, which would be a shame
Love for Glasgow Celtic ” unconditional ” no excuses, back the players , back the management and most of all give your loved one’s a hug before you go to sleep please, because we are Celtic supporters. stick together Bhoys these are indeed dangerous times to be an unadulterated Celtic supporting sevco hating smug bar steward hh
What is the Stars
23:35 on
12 December, 2014
Gordon 64.
I agree, but I think ronny is a little deluded
Yellow card,WITS.
Livibhoy
Cheers mhate
HH jamesgang
Hindsight is a wonderful thing but this is not hindsight.
I’ve never thought AM was a good defender. Sometimes when bounding forward he looked good. But I’ve never seen anything over the last 3 years to think he is a great defender.
Mikael Lustig though is a good defender. Our only world class player. He could play in any league.
HH
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Hail Hail the CELTS are here
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Exiled,
Is that paddy reilly,
Haven’t heard. But been very busy in work, I will check it out.
Very good post on TSFM.
CanuckBhoy says:
December 12, 2014 at 11:34 pm
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Reading the reaction to all the McCoist news makes it very obvious that most of the Rangers fan base, along with the SMSM, can’t understand the basic political compromise that gave birth to Sevco.
Charlie and the Spivs had the assets. Ally and the Real Rangurz Men could deliver the fans.
Recall that when the Green One showed up he was originally talking about austerity himself. Thinking, incorrectly, that the Rangurz Men would recognize this necessity and the fans, understanding that the original iteration of the club was being LIQUIDATED because it couldn’t meet its obligations to its creditors, Charlie was in the period where he was supposed to be “Nanny McPhee” and the fans would have to thank him later.
In all fairness, that’s the way it’s supposed to work. A set of distressed assets, burdened with unmet liabilities and too high of a cost base, has its value unlocked by drawing a line under the old business model and putting the capital to more efficient use. Charlie would make his money the old fashioned way: selling on the reorganized business at a profit.
I’ll say this for Chuck: whether the death threats and safe houses were real or not he figured out the score pretty quickly and opted for a far better scheme. He saw the power of the Rightful Place myth and adjusted accordingly.
The fundamental problem: how do you make money from a company that doesn’t make money?
Well, as long as you’ve got *ahem* “loyal” customers, naive investors, and the threat of being able to put a valued institution on ice (ask Bomber) you don’t worry about the business making money. You just figure out as many ways as possible to drain liquidity out of the business as possible and make sure you’re not around when the money runs out.
But to make it work he needed the fans. And that meant dealing with McCoist and his crew and making sure they got theirs. Was Ally cynical, or merely naive? I’m not sure I care. ANY time austerity was suggested he stood in its path. To him, the myth of Rangers had to be sustained at any cost… including his totally inappropriate cost. Handy that.
Then I read nonsense like this from Tom English: “A few weeks back, a Rangers supporter wrote McCoist an open letter and published it on a fans’ website. . . And here was the thing. The fan wanted McCoist to leave his post as manager and to publicly expose those who had brought the club to its knees – a last and selfless act that would guarantee his beloved status forever and would render all mishaps, including the recent capitulation against Alloa, utterly meaningless in the big picture.
It was a plaintive cry, well-argued and, it would seem, it had the support of a growing number of the club’s fans. McCoist could have arranged his exit and left to the sound of respectful cheering, a hero once more.”
It’s. Not. A. Mystery.
Who “brought [Rangers] to their knees”?
They all did. And you still can’t see the obvious.
Sips
Love big ghuy!
HH jamesgang
ToffeeTim, never mind chuckles Christmas message. It will soon be time for another “loving cup” ceremony.
I want to know wht they put in that. I think it’s monkey spunk but I could be wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dAKU0IDHj0
hee hee, idiots.