It’s not like we didn’t warn them. Charles Green, with his ‘blame it on bigotry’ and ‘Rangersitis’ nonsense was an even more transparent charlatan than wee Craig Whyte. Green moved in, fed them the nonsense they were oh so willing to swallow, and made off with their millions. All carried out in broad daylight.
The financial realities were self-evident from day one of Newco’s existence. For a while you had to wonder if any of vast number of fans, journalists and fan-journalists with computers had a spreadsheet between them. But, a more powerful force than Rangersitis had taken hold – vanity. The kind of vanity only those afflicted by a notion of supremacy are susceptible to.
Their club was liquidated, a newco was formed. It adopted Rangers’ name while the original club was still an SFA member (and granting permission for their players to turn out for was for the time known as ‘Sevco Scotland’.
Put yourself in their shoes for a moment. This isn’t an easy pill to swallow. Around these parts people invest the kind of sentiment in their football team which goes into nationalism elsewhere, occasionally causing wars. It’s a primitive but natural part of all of us, so perhaps we should have been more respectful of the feelings of others at the time. Cough.
If someone was able to chart the world’s Cognitive Dissonance harvest it would have been off the chart for the last two years, brought about when a degrading reality met a supremacists vanity. The subsequent scarcity of Armageddon (biff), Celtic’s flourishing Champions League action (bang), the new New Firm (whallop) were all late blows which none of the Jokers at Ibrox anticipated. Even Kilmarnock managed to sort themselves out without collapsing into administration.
Without the ability to accept credit or debit cards, or with the bank’s authority to allow fans to automatically renew season tickets, the signs are written as tall as Ibrox’ Club Deck. I can’t see more than a few thousand being prepared to throw their money into a landfill site.
Season ticket renewal deadline has been moved to a week before when next month’s wages are due. Right now the directors have a reasonable aspiration that tens of thousands of fans will renew but on 17 May, the day after the deadline, reality should crystallise. If there was a spread bet available, I’d put my money on administration in the days to follow.
Money talks, it don’t sing and dance and it don’t do walking away….
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HT
Nice to know someone is setting out markers!
Are you serious?
Lilys
tobagostreet
20:51 on 27 April, 2014
Agreed, see my post above.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
TET
He want’s onto the IRA, and you let him in.
dontbrattbakkinanger
17:44 on 27 April, 2014
If I played for hibs I would be on the ole toilet duck.
Posts like that
makes this site so worthwhile IMO
Supercoisty must be mildly apprehensive at the prospects of gettin’ out of the ole liga de muerta next season.
He’ll be look in’ for a world record sized war chest.
Cash only.
turkeybhoy
21:02 on27 April, 2014
Court for impersonating Macca ?
I think he’s going down.
HH
Derek McInnes named PFA Scotland Manager of the year….What utter nonsense. Just because they beat Celtic twice he gets that award?
ShamelessScotland
Or is that too racist for the PC Brigade on here?
Kris Commons Player of the Year.
Well done
Hamiltontim is praying for Oscar
20:44 on
27 April, 2014
I thought today’s pre match display was excellent.
It didn’t vilify the player but clearly set out a marker for what is expected of a Celt.
Just look at nearly all the headlines on Newsnow Celtic.The game is an afterthought.Watch the press tomorrow.
awe_naw_no_annoni_oan_anaw_noo
20:48 on 27 April, 2014
tricoloured ribbon
Me too. I do honestly admire them. I can’t take it anymore. Maybe its time to embrace better principles as a club. Homegrown players, less success, become a community club rather than an irritating corporate toy thats lost its appeal.
HH
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I have sort of resigned myself to being happy with what we win domestically.
Please God it will be more than just the League next season.
It’s gonnae be mighty hard to get to the CL group stages with Celtic Park out of the equation
Hi John O
I see you are flying your kite again.
DJ67
I think the fact that Derek McInnes is a mason, helped him.
dj67supportstheresignationofregandoncasterogilvie&co 21:05
As NFL commented, last season he took Celtic to a league and Cup double, and the last 16 of the champions league and they ignored him.
marspapa
21:03 on 27 April, 2014
Your welcome mate.
Please accept my apologies for spelling and grammar on my earlier post e.g. barrow load instead of barrowload and there instead of their, iPad has a lot to answer for. And I do not want hamiltontim giving me extra homework…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Villareal 2-0
Can I post that?
Is it Celtic related??
Lily
Yes I was serious.
Awe Naw
Whit?!
So you’re saying that because CQNers who are actually at the game aren’t posting updates during the game that that makes it understandable or acceptable for those not at the game to be posting anything else (non match related) throughout the match?
Aye ok then.
turkeybhoy
21:08 on 27 April, 2014
So what?
great country on bbc na halba
Does anyone have a link to any explanation from the Green Brigade as to what they thought their banner today would achieve?
Apart, that is, from filling the front and back pages of the Scoddish rags for the next week.
Lennybhoy
A measured, considered post, good on you.
ad on rangers media
AJBELL ‘Youinvest’
A deal from £4.99
that’s stretchin it a bit
“If it was aimed at Leigh we’re going through a process at the minute & we’ll be able to speak more about it when the process finishes”
NFL
So winning the League cup gets you manager of the year.Disgraceful.To go through the league with one defeat,win it by 25+ points,break a 40 odd year record,is deemed not good enough.Nuff said.
Well done KC.Well deserved.
Turkeybhoy
21:02 on
27 April, 2014
Once again we have fans on here talking about LG.I wish the same fans would shut the f— up and wait until the guy has had his day in court.Innocent until proven guilty.Is that too hard to understand.If singing”The Hearts are going down”is any kind of offence,then we can shut up shop now.
The accusations that he sang a racist song,are totally unfounded on the evidence produced.A bigger worry is that Police Scotland have seemed to start a witch hunt against one person,who it would be virtually impossible to say with any measure of certainty,sang this song,yet the other songsters,quite plainly singing it ,as far as we know,have had no charges brought against them.
The banners today were a disgrace.Totally premature.Daily Record driven.If charged and found guilty,that would be the time to show disapproval.Not today.All the so called fans have done is jump the gun,and take the headlines away from the hun.
We seem to be experts at this.
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You’re wasting your time with the Self-Rightous, Self-Pitying, Vain Brigade on here.
An appeal to the concept of PC is the characteristic of the frustrated bigot who longs for the good old days when he could call a black man a spade.
squire danaher
21:12 on 27 April, 2014
Does anyone have a link to any explanation from the Green Brigade as to what they thought their banner today would achieve?
Apart, that is, from filling the front and back pages of the Scoddish rags for the next week.
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I’d imagine it was done in the spirit and ethos of Celtic FC.
A club founded for refugees.
Just cause
A satisfied smile:-)
hamiltontim is praying for oscar
21:13 on 27 April, 2014
Apart from some spelling and grammar Sir…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Tricoloured,
I reckon we will be concentrating on the CL and SPL like we have been doing these last two years. Part of the package to encourage the rest and enhance our CL chances. Do we want to qaulify just for the money and get humped at Celtic Park ? A good point about Murrayfield, also with Johan gone things might be tougher. Also if FF is going to a club competing in Europe? Is Stefan and Leigh enough or is PLs lucky streak about to crash and fizzle?
HH
BSR
I’m sure he can manage all on his own.
HH
J O’N
Did I give you the in you are looking for ?
HT
9,09
So the GB set the bench mark for us all?
I wasnt going to make any comment,but did i read right that you posted that”A few IRA songs” wouldnt be an obstacle or a problem with Celtic being in England?
(by the way sung them all, still do, but thats not my point)
lilys
Good evening
Couldn’t get to the game today as I was working. Also coouldn’t get a suasage and elected not to listen to shortbread so was relying on CQN updates. Well done to those who took the time to convey the action on the blog.It seems like it was agreat performance and I look forwards to watching highlights and CTV.
I am personally delighted with the GB’s banner and think it was an appropriate message to send out. After some bad publicity, I think the GB have played a blinder with this one.
I really don’t have a problem with the political / indy ref posts on here. For those of us who live in Scotland, it is the single most important constitutional event of our lives and it would be bizzare in the extreme if Celtic supporters did not take and speak about their position. Lets face it, this blog is not just about football.
HH
Has Lenny ever won the manager of the year award ?
I work most Saturdays and Sundays and rely on CQN and twitter to keep me up to date.
Even if there are people on here debating the meaning of the universe, I scroll by.
Let them get on with it.
It is of no importance to me.
Cannot understand the discussion on this.
Only one person makes the rules in here as it is his blog.
What I do not like I scroll past.
Can’t do the link thing but there’s a belter of a picture of Moshni getting his photo taken with a fan on twitter.
Hamiltontim is praying for Oscar
21:10 on
27 April, 2014
turkeybhoy
21:08 on 27 April, 2014
So what?
What does that stupid comment mean?.Oh I forgot,no one on here ever reads the rags.
No one else the length and breadth of Scotland reads them either,so it does not matter what they print?.
Maybe in your world you like the rags having a field day at our expense.I dont.So “Thats what”.
delaneys dunky
21:01 on 27 April, 2014
TCR
When can I buy you a pint in Clydebank?
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Over on the 9th May,day after my birthday.Flat out till I return on the Monday.
Anywhere for a drink mate.One condition,my big call..!
Stephboy @ 19:06
Ps we are a better team than the one that started the season
I beg to differ in that the team that started the season were the holder of two trophies whereas the team that finished the season managed to retain only one of them
Ps Hawaii Five-O tune over tannoy at Ambrose goal brought a smile to my face