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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justafan
18:05 on 8 April, 2014
IDS, was the only one likely to be PM, see how that turned out for him. He was torn apart.
Google him, google 2002 G.E.
He was party leader for two years, and did actually fight a general election, but not one he had any chance of winning.
I get it, I know there is no bar on a Roman Catholic holding the office of PM, it’s just that it hasn’t ever happened since the reformation. What are the statistical chance of that!?!?!?
Pretty slim?
It’s an opinion and the only fact I have is that it has never happened, pretty hard as facts go.
Also apologies for the tardy reply.
BadaB
And to U
HH
My biggie is Brighton, so far so good.
Hebcelt,
If you’re in uk bt broadband comes with security package for up to 7 pc’s
Hail! Hail!
Bada bing
That’ll be a big price if that comes in
TET
Chelski v PSG 2nd half – ref looks a bit quick to flash cards – 4 yellows already.
Ernie, also apologies for the tardy reply.
Doc
20:37 on 8 April, 2014
I don’t think the Tories would have had IDS as a leader if they thought his religion would have prevented him being PM.
By the way, the office of PM didn’t exist when the Act of Settlement was passed so how it’s supposed to dictate the religion of the holder of an office which hadn’t yet come in to being is beyond me.
Look who is in the top 10:
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/peter-jukes-named-best-uk-reporter-twitter-and-social-media-full-press-gazette-top-50-list
The Scottish MSM will not be happy.
Ref at Chelsea game hopeless,there’s a soft penalty in him
Ernie
Quite so …an line often trotted out …always completely wrong
I remember reading the offending Act…you’d be lifted for printing that kind of stuff now
Pfayr-39/1
QPR two nil down
They worst be the second worst value for money team in Europe…..behind Sevco of course
The Battered Bunnet
15:29 on
8 April, 2014
RWE
Yip, some nice lines, although it ought to have been pointed out that Murray has less than 5% of the MIH equity, having been diluted to dishwater by the repeated debt-equity swaps the bank used.
The final tote will show north of £650M losses to shareholders, most of which swallowed by the bank.
It was all a charade.
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Was it more than that?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2599622/Ex-Hearts-owner-Vladimir-Romanov-arrested-Moscow.html
P
Agree, he is out of his depth I think, I know he has reffed at the CL final before, a bit like Gollum at CL level imo.
HH
PSG riding their luck
PSG wobbling against the no surrenderists.
HH!!
doc…
All true but nonetheless the Torries wouldn’t have ditched him even if he’d got them into a winning position.
Also there was never a catholic speaker since the Reformation until there was one!!!
6 yellows
I’m watching River City.Says much about the CL.
Bob O’B
I know you nats have been urged to infect all sorts of sites but that thing you just posted is just silly – very silly. Try not to do it again.
eldiegobhoy
Snap, that Bob wouldn’t get to sing in ma Bar :-)
Unless he knows some Celtic Songs, then he could bring his guitar only
Hail Hail
mike Ashley
http://www.skysports.com/opinion/story/0,25212,20245_9256000,00.html
….PFayr supports WeeOscar
20:51 on
8 April, 2014
QPR two nil down
I think Harry Redknapps is one of the biggest frauds in the history of football management & i’m not referring to his dirty dealings with agents.
eldiego…
I’d rather watch Aberdeen v Hibs! And I did and it was dreadful lol
Cowie…
He couldn’t fit into my bar!
That might be a fatist joke…is that bad?
:-)
fritzsong
why all the sevco posts though?
WE’VE NEVER PLAYED THEM!!!! FFS!
Ernie, the post can find it’s origins around the time of the Act of Settlement, 1707, a couple of decades earlier. Point conceded. I hadn’t done any reading on the position that far back before.
That is around 300 years of the post of Prime Minister.
Is that statistically surprising given the size of the Catholic population or not?
I do get there is no legal bar, but there hasn’t been one.
As I say, that is a fact, never heard anyone explain why.
The Tories, as a voting body, may not have thought IDS’s religion would be an impediment to him taking up the post, the fact remains, he didn’t.
No RC has.
An anomaly? I just doubt that.
:-) no comment
Dortmund fans singing roll out the barrel.
estorilbbhoy afraid not with Plusnet but have been thinking about shifting to BT. Hail Hail Hebcelt RM v Dortmund is some game
Hats off to auld Lizzie for standing to attention for The Soldiers Song today !
Hope she’s still got her hearing in two years time when Flower of Scotland is playing when Alex gives her the butchers apron back !
Dortmund game far superior to hundoners game. Casillas pulling off some heroic saves. Madrid just hanging on. Great stuff.
20 mins to go and Real are lucky not to be 4 or 5 down. Just hanging on to a slender 3-2 aggregate lead.
Just feel Chelski are likely to steal a late goal to go through on away goals. Hoping not !!
See Alex Thomson number 3 and our own Phil number 10 in the social media journalists awards.
Wonder if Jangle will add his name to this and claim it as an exclusive :-)
hebcelt
21:12 on 8 April, 2014
estorilbbhoy afraid not with Plusnet but have been thinking about shifting to BT. Hail Hail Hebcelt RM v Dortmund is some game
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Got bt broadband deal £8 a month unlimited download and get bt sports free, so effectively bt paying me £ 4 to take their broadband ( was paying £12 a month when not with bt ) worth a look :)
Doc
Only one Catholic US President since the Reformation. But they’ve had more Black heads of state than us.
itscalledthemalvinas
21:13 on
8 April, 2014
Hats off to auld Lizzie for standing to attention for The Soldiers Song today !
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Need Monaghan to let us know how FF is taking Tricolours n Fenian anthems doon Windsor way.
Cavani misses a great chance!
Useless Cavani