The commercial consequences of Sunday’s Ramsdens’ Cup Final result didn’t occur to me until Celtic released season ticket news yesterday. Over the years, when possible, Celtic and Rangers released season ticket renewal notices on the back of a favourable result.
As well as a party at Ibrox on Sunday night, the wheels would have been ready to roll with photographs of newly acquired silverware and a plea from the most expensive failed-yet-retained manager in history to renew early. There may even have been a price increase this year, slipped in amid the feel-good factor.
There has been a lot of talk about how critical season ticket sales are to Newco Rangers but we are no different. The circa 40,000 people who commit to support Celtic each season are the rock bed upon which all plans are made. Sure, Champions League money is critical, but without this volume of season ticket sales there would be no Champions League money. The season ticket is the Badge of Honour in Scottish football, during these critical years more than any other time.
In 2012 when we campaigned to deny a new club access to an elevated position in Scottish football we did so in the knowledge that competition in the league would be different going forward. This was our preference. While actual attendances have often been below season ticket levels I know that to a man, woman and child, everyone who pitches up to watch Celtic appreciates being apart from the scourge which afflicted us for so many years. This is the way I like my football, long may it last.
Seville – The Celtic Movement
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Medtim
Can he sing?
Hebcelt probably a wee slip on the date but its the 11th not the 10th. Would hate you to arrive a day early.
Tallybhoy 17.05
Just imagine the Lonnie with 50+ CQNers. YEEha!
Hope you are well, sir.
See you on 10th. How you travelling up?
HH
Just passed through Fulham Broadway tube – lots of PSG fans there singing already.
After they sang La Marseillaise, they started up with a version excursion of Flower of Scotland – zut alors!!
Obviously with different lyrics – at a guess or else they translated them faithfully into french:)
Sounded great mind. Was peppier, allegro, four to the floor almost:)
thomthethim for Oscar OK
17:22 on
8 April, 2014
Petethebeat,
If you are around.
I watched your link last night on Sky Sports News GAA spoof.
Absolutely, brilliantly hilarious, especially for anyone with an understanding of Gaelic games.
We needed something to lift the grass roots spirits after the shameful decision from Headquarters.
I heard them boasting today that the five Garth Brooks concert WILL go ahead, even though there has still to be a decision re obtaining a licence.
Their arrogance is invincible
& their greed unmistakable
ernie lynch
16:37 on
8 April, 2014
No. Although it presents difficulties given the PM’s role with the C of E. Did Gordon Brown as a member of C of S excuse himself from those decisions? I’ll need to check when I get in.
Should probably have said they gave the song a ‘relooking’
L’EspritDeL’EscalierCSC
weeminger
Gordon Brown excused himself from most decisions when he was Chancellor and PM, not on religious grounds but because he abdicated nearly all his responsibilities to the spivs in the city.
thomthethim
Glad you enjoyed it. I only watch the big games, quarters onwards or so, so can’t really comment.
Maybe Sky could promote it so that some English sports nuts might pick it up.
Link again for anyone interested is –
http://www.todayfm.com/Gift-Sky-Sports-GAA
It’s the 3rd item with Phil Thompson gasping at the screen.
ger57
I’m fine bud. Hope you’re well.
Flying Pisa-Dublin on Saturday, overnight stay then DUB-Prestwick. Arrive mid-Afternoon.
Heading back to Italia 17 May. Liver may not survive – but hey-ho!
Hope to see you!
HH!!
It’s bound to kick off with those PSG boys – some serious cases amongst their support.
They’ll be looking for retribution after the Chelsea thuggery.
Big Nan at 15.52
I am no apologist for any journalist but perhaps you can tell me why Douglas Fraser is the only SMSM journo named by you.
His brief is Business & Economy Editor and since mid 2012 (by my count) he has done nine articles on the BBC Scotland website about TRIFC/Whyte/Green/Murray/MIH.
In his article in 4 March 2013, he highlighted the 7million shortfall in Green’s first 7 months accounts and questioned whether those losses could be turned round. He points out the bits that are missing from the Green accounts, including no figures for players salaries. No praise for them at all.
In his article on 19 December 2013, he highlighted the chaos at the TRIFC AGM. He again stresses the dysfunctional business model there and his last paragraph is as close as he gets to writing anything positive about the whole mess. I quote..
“However, Wallace made it clear that he intends to go back to get that power ( to investors for a new tranche of funding) in future. Before then, he is aware that he needs to present investors with a convincing case that Rangers has got a grip on its finances and the way it’s run. That’s as a functioning and sustainable business with serious management, as much as a football club with passionate supporters.”
We all know that Wallace & TRIFC failed on all counts and they are in a worse position than they were back then.
The remainder of Fraser’s articles without exception are highly critical of the whole mess at TRIFC, often sarcastically so.
His latest article today is entirely consistent with those. He doesn’t do name calling, or hysterical hyperbole – he lets the ridiculous facts shout out the absurdity of it all. He does not praise Murray in today’s article, rather he lampoons him mercilessly
He may have other articles published elsewhere that I am unaware of, but I have detected no sycophancy in his BBC reports for the last 18 months on any of them – Murray/Green/Whyte/TRIFC/MIH.
HH
Just saw the tweet from the Celtic Park Staduim Manager showing a picture of the new pitch growing on the German/Dutch border. No specific location mentioned, of course :-)
Cheers you up just to look at it, endless miles of shining green.
Living_in_the_Love_of_the_Commons_People
http://t.co/ZlwuZ3l4a8
the new pitch
HH
roy croppie
17:50 on 8 April, 2014
Cheers! New iPad home screen duly installed. :-)
dj67ynwa
Grab All, indeed.
roy croppie
re: the new pitch
Is it floating? If not, why not? Sack the board!
A few weeks back somebody (sorry, I forget who it was) was asking about Brora Rnagers in the Highland League. Here’s an update
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/26931320
Roy
What happens to the old pitch? I could do with a new lawn!
Does Leigh Griffiths really deserve the hounding he’s getting?
http://danieloconnel18.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/leigh-griffiths-and-modern-witch-hunt.html?m=1
thomthethim
You are right,why single out Zlatan.
Why don’t we include Lionel Messi.Guilty of tax evasion on a huge scale which,we all know,is the most heinous of crimes?
If Messi (like Zlatan) said he wanted to play for Celtic would his crime preclude him?
Luis Suarez?
What “crimes” should someone be excluded from consideration or sacked for and who decides?
Margaret McGill.
If his book is anything to go by,big Zlatan can sing like a canary.I forgot to mention his assault on a team mate in the dressing room.It was Mido though and he did try throw a pair of scissors at his head!!
The photo of the new pitch got me thinking.
How do you think it would play out if there was a petition to have the sod for the centre spot laid by a well known Irish Republican,member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and rebel?
The original was,of course,laid by Michael Davitt who was all of the above and more.
doc 16.16…
Delayed reply lol.
Hear what you’re saying but it is inconceivable to me to imagine had IDS & CK formed a coalition, as we have now, that somehow they would have been prevented from taking office.
Can you genuinely imagine that?
BMCUW – Call me RE: May 10th.
Billy No’Well is available to perform on this date and is keen to do a set for the CQN audience. I am also in discussion with Boutique Lounge as a possible venue. What do you guys think of this as a ‘possible’ venue?
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boutique-Lounge/126756124120979
ger57/Conner1888
I’d be floating after some Dutch grass :)
I think we’re flogging it £195 a sod, signed by the first team :))
HH
Talkin aboot Famous.. Sports Figgers..
In America.
Baseball, is Very, Very popular..
Sure, Babe Ruth was… n is… a well Known n Much Admired Player, a true Giant of the Sport..
Howevahhhhhhh..
It is Admitted,if only among …. the Baseball Inner Cognoscenti.. fur reasons that wull become clear..in a wee While…
That
Although, Ruth wiz a Hellava Player… As wur.. Koufax or Joltin’ Joe… Thur Accomplishments in the game ,wur Over-shadowed by .. anither..
The Ither?
Ty Cobb.
Ty Cobb, wiz. Probably the Very Best Baseball Player.. All Round . who ever
played the Sport.
But..
Ty wiz a Well Known.. Bigot.. He wiz a Southerner..n.. he wiz still at war wi the North.
He hated. Blacks.. He wouldnot even Use an Elevator.. which had a Black Man as the Operator thereof( In those days. Every Hotel Elevator had an Operator. No such thing as Automatic ones,in those days..n.. most Operators at those Elevator Controls … wur,usually . Black.)
He wiz No only a Bigot..
He wiz a Dirty Player.. When Running The Bases.. He used the Spikes on his BaseballShoes.. tae Great n Painful Effect..on the Opposition…when sliding into Base.
One day, During a game.. There wiz a Fan in the Stand..who . Wiz unmercifully
Criticizing Mr. Cobb..
For whitevah Reason.. No one Knew..
it wiznae Clear, why this Particular Fan wiz Hivin a Field Day , Berating the Hell oot Ty Cobb..
But.. He Soitenly wiz..
N
Ty Had had it Up tae … n Here n Here, n… Aye.. There ,as well…!
with the constant.. Catcalls n Slurs, that Wur emanating frum the Stand.
But, Ty Bided his time. He Anger . growing like a Bathroom Mold..( Hmmm.. Slow like?..ed)
When the game wiz Over.. the Catcalls directed at Ty. still Continued,though..
n Ty.. Then Made his Move..
As he left the Field. Ty.. Vaulted intae the Stand..where his Tormentor wiz Sitting..
Ty Proceeded tae, Summarily n Skillfully Box His Tormentor’s Ears.. Nose.. Throat . Chest.. n Anywhere else, he could Reach !
Ty wiz Angry. n . .. he wiz exacting a fulsome revenge..on the Person .. o’ this maist Agravatin’ Person..
The Crowd ,witnessing this Furious Assault.. Cried oot fur Ty tae Cease n Desist..
fur.. the Exclaimed in Amazement…
Couldna Ty See..that his Victim wuz a
CRIPPLE.. ???? The Fellow had.. NO LEGS!!
But , Ty Continued, unashamedly. tae Beat the Hell oota the guy..
and when he wiz Finished..
He Shouted back.. tae the Crowd..
“Sure, He is a Cripple.. but.. He His A Big Mouth!”
Yes. that wiz Ty Cobb…
He wiz a Bigot n a Bully..
But..’
He wiz Wan Hellava Baseball Player!
Point of the Story…
No Point..
except..
Kin wan Separate the Pleasure that The Baseball Fans Received..n Thoroughly Enjoyed. from the Ootstanding Play of Ty at the game that they Loved..
n, His Equally outstanding contribution tae the Victories that He Helped his Team tae achieve, n fur the The Team which those fans so Luvved,
Frum their Disgust at this Boorish n Racist Behavior??
Hmmmmmmmmmm
Ahywey.. all that being said..
Ah believe that they Somehow. Managed tae .. Make that Separation.. Rather Easily.. n…. without the slightest Bother.
Don’t You?
Kojo
Still Laughin’
A Guy Called….
roy croppie
How many grams in a sod?
ger57
I’m not answering that, Focus are sitting in a big van one street away :)
HH
dammo Lennon
Read the article earlier on Celticnewsnow.
Very well written by Daniel O Connell.
To me, the article is balanced and very well reasoned and puts the issue into perspective.
Well worth reading.
HH
medtim
18:04 on
8 April, 2014
The photo of the new pitch got me thinking.
How do you think it would play out if there was a petition to have the sod for the centre spot laid by a well known Irish Republican,member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and rebel?
The original was,of course,laid by Michael Davitt who was all of the above and more.
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Isn’t the centre spot still supposed to be Donegal turf? Or have we done away with that fine oul tradition and replaced it with dammed Saxon turf. German Dutch border grass eh? Surely our so called custodians knew that this was the region governed by Prince William of Orange prior to his stealing the British crown from the good Scottish Catholic King James II. IT is an affront to Celtic supporters everywhere. What did tens of thousands of Celtic players fight 2 world wars for? Yet more damning evidence of the ongoing ethnic cleansing of all things Irish from Parkhead. We continually vote against the election of board members but our wishes are constantly ignored and we have no say (that is apart from a vote in a democratic election ) in the running of our club. That is why I will be voting yes for Celtic Independence at the next AGM.
morrissey- looks a nice place mate,maybe an idea to keep venues via emails,i’m sure you know the depths our enemies plummet to.HH
A good day. Still basking in the afterglow of the mighty Raith stuffing Newco. Then received my ‘virtual ticket’ parcel today.
Seville book opened and 10 pages read, a good start.
“A” level scripts to be marked so has to be put on back burner for moment. T shirt big enough to go down Jock Stein end so it should fit (just about).
Many thanks to Winning Captains, BRTH,Tony, Doc and all who were involved in such a wonderful project.
Is mo na cumann e.
Frank,medtim,
The centre circle of the renovated CP was indeed a sod that we brought over from Donegal in 1995.
Fergus ceremoniously laid it in front of a coach load of us, plus a Glasgow contingent of expats.
We wee treated to a lovely lunch.
The previous night, we were at Ibrox for the SC semi replay v Hibs.
Aw nah…Spiers questioning Sally’s ability as a manager on Shortbread. We don’t need this Spiersy!
SallymuststayCSC
Wishart says the huns have the finances to come up from Div 1 next season……..where from?
I remember a few years back at an AICSC meeting we were informed that Celtic were favourably disposed to having 4 sods from the 4 Provinces of Ireland planted at the 4 corner flags at Celtic Park. A debate was even held to nominate the 4 places from where the sods were to be taken from. Ballymote was universally agreed for the Connaught sod and Cashel where my Supporters Club was based was the favourite for the Munster sod. We were starting to make plans for a big local ceremony with media coverage etc. but for some reason the whole plan was shelved. Never found out why but always felt it was a great opportunity missed to give the Clubs Irish fanbase a huge boost.
Damo Lennon – IMO LG does not deserve the hounding he’s getting. We should ask the folks calling his chanting ‘racist’ to explain to us why they believe that. Yes, he was stupid to get involved, but remember, stupid is tough to fix. This is going to take some time.
I remember signing much worse in the jungle but the only thing that I remember that came close to racist was “Who’s the bar steward in the black”. I think the rest was distasteful, hurtful and on reflection embarrassing, but it was fun at the time and we have thankfully moved on. Perhaps my stupidity has been cured after all these years.
morrissey
Billy No’well on the tenth would be brilliant – imo of course. Always wanted to see him in the flesh.
What about TOWIB? Do you know him as well?
HH!!