For as long as you or I can remember, Celtic’s youth teams have had a fearsome reputation, winning countless titles, even with Kenny McDowall as head coach, but something inevitably goes wrong. Clubs like Dundee United, Hibs, Hearts and even Hamilton Accies have a better record of graduating prospects, despite having a poorer youth team to pick from.
The other fearsome reputation we had, was that Celtic was one of the places young talent came to wither on the vine, before shuffling off to a minor club at around 21-years-old. Where would you send your boy, Celtic or Dundee United………?
The argument goes that clubs like United have more opportunity to blood young talent than Celtic, who for long periods of the last 20 years were locked in an all-or-nothing battle for supremacy, or the need to reach the Champions League group stage, or the next level of the Champions League. This theory doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, though, as clubs with higher still demands are able to mature young talent through first team exposure.
The truth is it’s never been a first team priority, as we have been caught in a ‘buy success’ mentality for close to 30 years.
Still only 18, Liam Henderson has as much chance as anyone who have come through the ranks in the last couple of decades of making it as a top player at Celtic, but he needs to be stretched by playing competitive senior football over the next three years, cameo appearances here and there will not provide the platform he needs. A few months at Rosenborg, who kick off a new league season on Monday, will give him opportunities he’s not going to see at Celtic between now and the end of the season.
Did you see what newco director, Paul Murray, did with his stock market announcement yesterday?
He wrote, “I have been informed by Deloitte, the existing auditor, that they informed the previous Board of their intention to resign following the June 2014 audit. The previous Board chose not to announce this nor did they find a replacement for Deloitte. With limited time to have these results reviewed the Board asked Jeffreys Henry to perform the exercise as Independent Reporting Accountants, not auditors.”
On reading this many were inclined to conclude the reason Deloitte did not act as Independent Reporting Accountants for their interims was because they had left the building. Not so. Murray later confirmed to a Daily Record financial reporter (not the football guys) that Deloittes are still newco’s auditors. I am sure there is a perfectly good reason they didn’t sign off the interims. Maybe they were busy that day.
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Bob Kelly said that television would kill football.
He also said that European ties should be played on a luck of the draw basis, re home or away, in a one game tie.
He reckoned that with the two legged tie, paying supporters were only seeing half a game.
Ach, but what did he know!
Oglach
Thanks for that – I will check that as it is only supposed to run once per 24 hours. We are experimenting with these things and errors or annoyances will be sorted so it is good to get the necessary feedback.
NatKnow – Paul deals with that an has the info – he will reveal in his own good time! He paid the Marie Curie cancer fund around £5000 last week and will have enough left over to build the kitchen but Paul will reveal the exact details when he’s got everything sorted!
archdeaconsbench @ 10 22 .
Pogba ?
Yes ———– saw a tv interview with Nedved after the Italy v England game . Barca are deemed likely . .@ 100 million euros. .He couldn’t resist a ” player who wasn’t good enough for Manchester Utd ” comment.
Oglach,
Everyone knows that swearing is only displaying a lack of vocabulary.
Easier said than done sometimes to be fair.
HH.
The pop up ads do not appear on my pc but I have had the experience on other sites. If CQN is preceded by only one or two and they can be removed by a click of the mouse, I am at a loss as to understand why the cause so much annoyance. I understand the disapproval of the content but, personally, I have no problem with betting on a very casual level.
Anyway, lovely day and I have just got my summer bike out . My Swanky Bianchi at the moment but may well become my Manky Bianchi by November.
Cheerio to all the clever Tims. ie Those who are no mad.
JJ
Cheers Geordie, all useful.
Do you charge for guys taking up the spare season book for the day or just be thankful for the bus money?
Greenpinata,
I can see your point however, gambling has never been any part of my football experience, with my family or friends. Can’t say the same about alcohol though!
These ads are putting me off visiting CQN and that can’t be good for CQN if I’m not the only one who has this reaction (and I’m pretty sure I’m not).
Greenpinta:
“Everyone knows that swearing is only displaying a lack of vocabulary.”
Everyone does not know that ! Sometimes , a sweary word is the most appropriate . In the punchline of a joke, for instance, or even as a relatively harmless way of releasing anger.
Definitely off now,
JJ
huskerpunk
We do the same as Geordie but definitely charge for the ST .
JJ
Greenpinata
10:55 on
2 April, 2015
Oglach,
Everyone knows that swearing is only displaying a lack of vocabulary.
Easier said than done sometimes to be fair.
HH.
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Not too sure of that, a lot of the great contemporary wordsmiths swear (a lot).
St Stivs. Perhaps I worded my thanks poorly.Knew you were not the author. Merely wished to say thank you for posting it.
Winning Captains.
Using a laptop with Windows 8 gets me an ad for 888 Casino online . That is followed by a screen sized message from the Italian State blocking the site .It doesn’t happen on my Macbook Pro.
Husker,
We used to charge 25 quid all in (seat and travel) if the bus got it sold. Seat money only, if it was the ticket owner who got rid of it.
Some games now we are just glad of the seat money :)
Get a logo drawn up and get t-shirts made. That was valuable income in our fledgling period.
Also get the tightest guy on the bus to deal with the dosh. Our treasurer counts every penny. It’s a bit of an bus joke with the boys but he’s worth his weight in gold :))
HH
Guys,
My swearing comment was only toungue & cheek.
HH.
Jungle Jim Hot Smoked,
Sounds like advertisers and cold-callers will love you!
Lovely day for a bike ride and I hope you enjoy it – your last sentence was a bit of a non-sequitur, though.
South Of Tunis
I am trying to restrict these to UK only as the advertiser is only interested in that market. If we can remove the annoyance we will! Thanks for the info!
Huskerpunk
Good luck in your venture.
My son and I have met 4 teenage Celtic supporters from Perth at 3 away games this season, St Mirren, Motherwell and Hamilton. They spend a fortune on rail travel from Perth to the matches. I am sure they would prefer a CSC to travel with.
HH
winning captains
10:52 on
2 April, 2015
NatKnow – Paul deals with that an has the info – he will reveal in his own good time! He paid the Marie Curie cancer fund around £5000 last week and will have enough left over to build the kitchen but Paul will reveal the exact details when he’s got everything sorted!
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Cheers WC – thought I may have missed an article! I like to send out an email to the guys who attended our table to let them know the total raised. After CQN-10 this helped sell CQN-11.I’ll watch out for Paul’s comms.
Huskerpunk
Have you worked out who is in charge of the songs played on the bus? Always a bone of contention.
Huskerpunk
Good luck, it’s always good to hear of new buses starting up.
Have you got an idea for a weekly income apart from members etc paying for seats on the bus?
I see that youth Henderson attempts to maintain Celtic buck syndrome
http://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/response-from-deloitte/#more-6097
Maybe we should try some youth in Asia?
Pop-ups!!
You can go to your settings (far right of your tab bar) and select ‘Advanced Settings’ – then block (flash) plug-ins.
Caution: this results in pop-ups appearing as a grey box with a jigsaw piece in it – no music/commentary or pictures in all your tab bookmarks.
This can affect various pages – e.g. your internet banking, paperless billing pages (gas/elec etc). However if you open e.g. your internet banking page you will see a small jigsaw piece with a red cross on it (top right of bar) saying – Plug-ins were blocked on this page. Click-on to allow – you need to repeat for each page (site) that you need plug-ins on.
All other sites (papers/sports etc) you can leave to run with plug-ins blocked.
Note: I’m no expert – knowledgeable I.T. youngster fixed it for me. :-)
Jungle Jim @ 10 56 .
” Swanky Bianchi ”
I have a Bianchi Sempre 105 . An absolute baby . Mrs S of T never tires of telling people that it cost twice the price of ” that bath tub he drives “.
I use a Flying Scot Continental Supreme in the winter . A gift from my old man in 1966. I have the receipt from when he bought it in 1962 -£ 31 12s 2 pence -Rattrays -Parliamentary Rd.
I have an extensive vocabulary of approximately 40000 words and consider myself quite erudite but my favourite word is still fuck
margaret mcgill
11:38 on 2 April, 2015
Welcome buck ….you were missed……!!
MM I think you are now a parody of yourself. H H Hebcelt
Whoo hoo mags is back
\♥/
Hebcelt
What’s a parody?
Parody dogs eat the frogs for two and tuppence h’apenny
Margaret McGill, your erudition is showing!
Thanks Geordie, I’ve added extra revenues to the agenda. Polo shirts is a great shout.
A tight treasurer will be no bother, got someone in mind already :-)
Yorkbhoy, aye, ME!!
Hamiltion Tim, cheers for the good wishes. Any ideas beyond the old football card and branded clothing welcome.
Delaney’s Dunky, did they have a Perth In Yer Area flag? They’ll be with us next season.
Lots of us used to travel on another bus but for one reason or another slipped away and were doing our own thing most of the time ie car/train. All excited about getting banded together.
The argument over the name of the club is going to take forever though so that’ll be last on the agenda or we’ll get nowhere.
Margaret McGill
11:58 on 2 April, 2015
My mind just jumped back nearly 50 year :))))
Ps
Seen an experiment think it was Stephen fry , where he got Brian Blessed to stick his hand in Ice cold water ,the pain tolerance levels were much higher & longer when cursing & swearing :)))))))))))))))))).
Pps
was just walking about the house with a smile as things are going well when THUD!!!!!! postie time
Letter fae bowel screening ,Birthdays who’d hiv them :)))))))))))))))))))))))))
Still smilingCSC
huskerpunk
Many buses run a tote or the like on a weekly basis. It would usually cost each member £10/week but they could sell to friends/family/colleagues/ priests/rabbis etc to limit expense.
If you need it explained better let me know.
Huskerpunk
The very bhoys. Nice polite, well educated lads. They will be a credit to your club.
All the best bud.
HT,
I hope no-one from my bus is reading this.
They are already bleeding me dry. Lol
I used to do what you are talking about in another organisation I was in where extra funding was essential. Worked well
HH
huskerpunk
12:08 on
2 April, 2015
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Get some wee metal club badges made.
google celticbadges and he’ll design and make them for you.
Get 100 done and sell them, then get another batch with a new design every time you sell out.
You can make a tidy wee profit easily with these and it’s easy money.