News that Hull City had a £6m bid for Robert Snodgrass accepted took the wind out of my sails this morning. Snodgrass was one of the outstanding performers for clubs in the bottom half of the English Premier League last season, so it’s easy to understand his ticket price, despite only having a year left on his Norwich City contract.
He is a Celtic fan and has not hidden his desire to play for the club, but Hull City (good grief) are now bidding £6m for players from relegated clubs, after spending £8m on a Spurs squad filler.
This all begs the question, can we afford to compete with Hull City? Probably, yes, but we can no more afford to splurge £14m on a couple of players than Hull, who a year ago were reporting debts close to £80m.
We’re operating in an environment where indirect competitors for players are spending unsustainable amounts of money, pretty much like Rangers did for 20 years under Sir David Murray. For a few years after Fergus left, we played the same game as Rangers, running up millions of pounds of losses year after year, before pulling away from the edge, while they kept the pedal to the metal and careered into liquidation.
The decision not to match the Bank of Scotland money flowing into Rangers cost us trophies, and caused a great deal of dispute in the Celtic family, but story ended sweetly. So, so, sweetly.
The crash may never hit England, but the job for Celtic is to find a way of remaining competitive in the Champions League while matching income to expenditure.
Visit the CQN Bookstore to get Tommy Gemmell to sign your personal copy of his book, All the Best.
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Auldheid
Thanks for your response.
So what will our club do about it?
TT
Sipsini
Knowing who plays the game ,doesn’t make me a player.
I am only a decent pub standard player.
I do really love to play h game though .
TT
Auldheid
Something needs to be done not just by Celtic but by all the clubs.
The SFA are a disgrace and somebody needs to call them out and again I don’t just mean Celtic. They stood by and watched the car crash of the Huns then bent the rules to get a tribute act in place. Now the same thing is happening again buying players with money they have not got we don’t even know if they will see the season out. It seems to me it’s a case of be quiet until they get to the top league again and then everything will be all right. Rapidly losing my faith in Scottish football here.
Delaney’s, sorry for the delay in replying to you 8.30 post.
Big Rod the Nod got our first that day with the buzzbomb getting the second from a rebound off the keeper.
Roddie was Sean Fallon’s next door neighbour in Kings Park and when he moved a great Celtic family moved in to be the Fallon’s neighbours.
I hope yer mammy is still well on the road to recovery.
TinyTim,
Thanks for organising this event, it is looking good. Pool is the best game just after fitba (IMO ofc), I don’t know if that is because we had a table when I was young. I’ve always loved the game, Snooker is far too hard for me. :D
I only wish my wee bhoy was able to come along as well but he is going to Spain with his Mum this week. He pots shots that have me going Wow. I have to be very tactical playing against him, sounds like I’m going to have to be tactical next week just to get a point. I’m turning into my Dad’s Pool playing stylie. argghhhh
Jobo, I can’t tell you about any good boozers in Auchterader but there is a nice wee hotel close by with tidy golf courses if you have a few grand spare to stay and play there.
One of my dad’s cousins was the parish priest in Auchterader many years ago. There was a cracking chippy also.
tinytim,
Just joshin, acgr is my pool caddy.
He’s been paid to spike the bevy, and carry a seven iron about to make sure all bets are paid.
Minds me of the bloke in prison break with the dummy hand ;))
Dallas
Big Roddy’s wife was a good Knightswood lass. My parents were friends with her parents. Saw Roddy the Proddy several times in Corpus Christi. Respect to oor Brora Rangers adopted Bhoy. :))
Petec,
Tactical = bag hinger :)
Delaneys Dunky
Next week is gonnae be Smokin’ good.
Night Night Timland.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Great coverage of wee Jays love for Sammi on BBC national news God bless yea Big Man will always be part of the Celtic Family.
awerabest PJ
sipsini
23:59 on 27 June, 2014
Petec,
Tactical = bag hinger :)
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I’ve been called worse. :D
A real shame Summa isnae here to Njoi the 2nd maist Beautiful game. I’ve never played a Tournoi, it should be a riot. I’m thinking drinking Stella will not enhance my chances of winning, so Stella it is then. :D
Delaney’s, the big man had a good record of scoring against the now defunct club even one with his foot when we beat them 2 nil round about February or March of the horrible 77/78 season. .
Did he become PC Rod the Nod after finishing his career at the maroon balloons?
I remember him being played at Centre Forward in a game against Zachering Zwickau of East Germany in 1976 and having a goal mysteriously disallowed. It was 1 each in the first game, they scored and Roddie’s disallowed goal would have levelled the aggregate score. The away game was live on TV in the afternoon.
Petec
I will be rolling the cream of the crop.
Anyone there is free to sample a crop that is provided by the Almighty to Heal the Nations. Grown by the Mighty Clyde for the purpose of Peace & Love. Yeshua
Are ye sure?
:))
It’s all good News, today
Petec
The new blackball rules favour potters not fudgers.
You can’t just roll up behind a ball the way your old man used to.(:-)
if you fail to pot a ball then a ball must hit a cushion after contact with another ball.
Sounds complicated, it ain’t .
Just pot balls.
It makes the game much more attacking.
For those unsure of the rules they would be best to start googling .(:-)
TT
Dallas
Is there anything about oor magical club you don’t know? ;)) Roddy became PC McDonald indeed! :))
Respect the Jammy knowledge. :)))
Sipsini, you definitely don’t want me as your 2IC. Petec has me playing in boxing gloves and I’m playing the green baize wi a back to front seven iron. You deserve better.
I’ll probably wear a blindfold too:_)
Petec,
Have you tried 8 ball pool mini clip?
Warning… Addictive.
TT, haud oan a minute. You seem ro know what you’re talking about and you get one or two of the rules anaw.
Are you giving a presentation before we kick of, tee off, bully off or whatever it is we do on the baize?
I’ll have a large Ardbeg and keep yer score.
TinyTim
00:16 on 28 June, 2014
Petec
The new blackball rules favour potters not fudgers.
You can’t just roll up behind a ball the way your old man used to.(:-)
if you fail to pot a ball then a ball must hit a cushion after contact with another ball.
Sounds complicated, it ain’t .
Just pot balls.
It makes the game much more attacking.
For those unsure of the rules they would be best to start googling .(:-)
TT
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I dinnae want to turn into my Dad but I dinnae want to neglect the immense knowledge he imparted to me about winning a Pool game, when the opposition player is obviously a lot better. I know you will understand. The wee man has been known to do deliberate snookers, that is a big no no with my Dad.
I have no idea about Rules and they sound excellent btw.
And my olde fella would never just roll up behind a ball. ;)) My Son would though.
Where did it all go wrong George Best?
Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas
00:07 on 28 June, 2014
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I remember watching that game at St Josephs primary school.
We were wearing yellow strips.
Canny remember much about it.
Big Roy was playing, I think?
I remember having one of those green & white checked flags
with ‘CELTIC’ printed in yellow.
The huns won two trebles in three years, that game was played
during one of those horrible seasons.
HH
Dallas
My mad Tim mammy visited Mr Reilly the headmaster of Corpus Christi primary and told him that her son Garry would be watching the Celtic game away in East Germany as part of his education and would not be at school that afternoon. He agreed to her demand. :))
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
00:18 on 28 June, 2014
Sipsini, you definitely don’t want me as your 2IC. Petec has me playing in boxing gloves and I’m playing the green baize wi a back to front seven iron. You deserve better.
I’ll probably wear a blindfold too:_)
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In all seriousness, the gloves are coming along. They will be in the car if they are ever required. The tournoi is sounding well Pro noo. When the main event is finished, the low skillers can be the Edward Woodward and bring out a new tournoi of Boxing Gloves Pool.
Blindfolds, ffs are you mental?
Acgr,
Think we’re a wee bit oot our depth pool wise here, best just get pashed and hope for the best and enjoy the banter as I’m sure the craic will be grand.
Fat Boyd is better than Henrik Larsson.
Various deluded hun poster on the 73 pager on hun media say it’s so, so that makes it a ………………………..
FACT. .
Delaneys Dunky
23:55 on
27 June, 2014
Dallas
Big Roddy’s wife was a good Knightswood lass. My parents were friends with her parents. Saw Roddy the Proddy several times in Corpus Christi. Respect to oor Brora Rangers adopted Bhoy. :))
*he was recommended tae us by 7-1 legend Sammy Wilson
Last orders, PLEASE
ACGR
The deluded wrong wans are more to be pitied than derided. Thank feck ma parents were Tims though! Imagine being born to hun parents? I am blessed! :)
Delaneys Dunky
00:38 on 28 June, 2014
ACGR
The deluded wrong wans are more to be pitied than derided. Thank feck ma parents were Tims though! Imagine being born to hun parents? I am blessed! :)
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Pray for Everyone, especially those that Hate you.
It is Radical.
Tontine Tim
Sammy one of our goalscorers that record breaking day.
God Bless the Sons of the Rock!
Delaney’s, loads I don’t know. Some of the posters on here who lived through the fifties and early sixties nightmares have suffered a hell of a lot more than us baby boomers,know a lot more than me.
From 1975 I started going to games regularly and I remember more about games from then to the centenary season quite vividly. Its pure coincidence that my memory of games from1989 onward are poor as they coincide with the second Scottish club to do 9 in a row but unlike ours, tainted.
The tim, Roy was only 16 or 17 and the club had to be his legal guardian for the period we were out of Scotland. We didn’t wear the hoops.
The now defunct club won trebles in the 75/76 season when Jock was recovering from his car crash. They won it again in the 77/78 season after we had lost Kenny then three of our best payers from the previous season, Danny, Pat Stanton & Alfie Conn,to long term injury. What made it worse was Jock ‘go for the jugular’ Wallace was their manager.
a newer version of the lonesome boatman, that i am loving
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpFHffUPQho
Delaney’s, yer mammy brought you up really well.
“Celtic Park is jumping and rocking”
Saint Stivs 00:48
magnifique.
Thank You