Hibs Armageddon dividend, gift the young will never know

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Well done to Hibernian fans for turning up in sufficient numbers to increase turnover to £8.0m from £6.9m the previous season, allowing the club to turn a profit in Armageddon season, despite some mediocre performances on the field.  The challenge for chairman Rod Petrie is to ensure the elevated income level results in the club outperforming village clubs, who survive on a fraction of Hibs income.

Hibernian should tower over St Johnstone, Inverness, Ross County and Motherwell in the race for second place.

Debt remains high at £5.5m (if Celtic’s debt was a similar proportion to turnover it would be circa £40m) but with the wages to turnover ratio at 49% there is scope to both bring debt down and get better value for money on the field.

30 friends, family and supporters of the Tommy Burns Skin Cancer Trust will be leaving Celtic Park on tomorrow afternoon heading to Dingwall where they will start a 400 mile cycle round every Scottish Premiership ground returning to Celtic Park on Sunday 15th September at 3:30pm. Their goal is to raise £100k for Melanoma Action and Support Scotland (MasScot) who are looking to introduce Scotland’s first ever mobile skin cancer screening unit which is bound to save lives given the success rates when diagnosing melanoma in early stages.

You can follow the team @TommyBurnsSCT and on Facebook this week as they begin this amazing fundraising event. Please support the team if you can at MyDonate. Packie Bonner and Frank McGarvey are signed up and Bertie Auld is getting involved in the final day.

You can participate in the last hour of the cycle, from St Mirren to Celtic Park, leaving around 2:30 on the Sunday, by emailing scottmcgarvey@gmail.com.  Scott will get you organised and help with a fundraising page.

Our thoughts to Jock Stein’s surviving family today, 28 years after his death, as another former Celtic manager prepares Scotland for a World Cup qualifier.  Those old enough to remember his time have a gift which the young will never know.
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  1. It had escaped my attention that the Haircut That Time Forgoat

     

    ………… was part of the fishal backroom staff.

     

     

    @Fitbabawbag.

  2. Bhoys

     

     

    We quick thanks to patmcg1888 for taking my car away for an MOT, service and two new tyres….great job and great service…if any of you bhoys in the central Scotland area need anything of a similar nature he would be delighted to help…he loves his skwerr sausage before he takes yir motor tho…seriously give him a message if you need anything, can’t speak highly enough of him.

     

    He also has some cracking CQN golf shirts left xl in white with green piping and belters they are…..

     

     

    Kikinthenakas

  3. Oscar positive thoughts unionbearBhind

     

     

    19:38 on 10 September, 2013

     

     

    Big Nan

     

     

    signed by my good lady, & have sent link to son who has a Facebook acc, says he will be only to happy to sign, & put link up on his page.

     

     

    HH

     

    …………………………..

     

    Much appreciated I am something of a novice at Facebook and only joined a few weeks ago to promote the petition. I started out by leaving the Scottish Parliament link to the petition on Scottish University sites for students and staff and promptly got suspended for 30 days without warning for spamming!

     

     

    I joined Twitter tonight and will see how long I last before they ban me, so if you and others can pass on the link I would be most grateful as I seem to be a marked man. Wonder why?

     

     

    H.H.

  4. googybhoy ♥ celtic

     

     

    19:36 on 10 September, 2013

     

    “No black arm bands for the Scotland team tonight.

     

     

    Why am I not surprised?”

     

     

     

    Cos they havny wore them in the past mibby?

  5. The Spirit Of Arthur Lee on

    googybhoy ♥ Celtic

     

     

    Ikechi Anya (born 3 January 1988 in Glasgow) is a Scottish professional football player who plays as a right winger for Championship side Watford. Anya has previously played for Wycombe Wanderers and Northampton Town, as well as Spanish sides Celta de Vigo, Sevilla Atlético and Granada.

     

    Despite being eligible to represent Romania, Nigeria or England internationally, he chose to play for Scotland. He received his first cap for the Scottish national team on September 6th 2013, coming off the bench in a 2-0 defeat to Belgium.

  6. doc is supporting oscar and mckenzie.

     

     

    19:43 on 10 September, 2013

     

    Never a dive Googy, defender missed the ball by miles and Hutton had to hurdle him to avoid getting clatter, the very suggestion:-)

     

     

     

    Sorry Doc I bow to your superior football knowledge. Do you work forcBBC Scotkand???

  7. 'crushed nuts?' 'Naw, Layringitis!' on

    green lantern (((((0)))))

     

     

    19:40 on 10 September, 2013

     

    &&&&&&

     

    LATIN??!!!!? Talk about kicking a club when it’s deid!!!!!!! :-)

  8. Cheers bada.

     

     

    I can never remember the number.

     

     

    I’m always scared in case I hit one of the rudies:)

  9. googybhoy ♥ celtic

     

     

    19:50 on 10 September, 2013jobo baldie19:48 on 10 September, 2013googybhoy –he’s the guy that had the hit with Orinoco Flow…Lovely haunting voice.

     

    If you came fae Castlemilk you would have a haunting voice anaw mate :)

     

    GameonCSC

  10. marakessh been cqn fan for while don’t post much but love reading all the well educated and brilliant posters and remember a few which bring back so many memories you mentioned one a while ago re castlemilk and your school st dominics I thinkgot lovely story for you igrew up in east end played primary football late 60s never played against any of the castlemilk schools played couple of year junior football with a guy danny moffat some player but cut to the chase about 1982 83 played amateur again in a sat morning league crossed swords again with danny drew his team in a semi final at greenfield we brought ringers in honest every player we had that day wasa jounior player they skelpd us 7 2 after the game spoke to dan who told me the no 10 was his brother non11 a guu called lynch and a boy at left back McGregor he winked and laughd as they left saying that was st doms fringe players always remember that one thing never found out they had a wee center scored 5 all headers against our center half who played for Kilmarnock later that day hope u enjoyed that st doms reminise

  11. Naismith isn’t being allowed to play his usual diving game due to the Macedonians actually repeatedly fouling him. Not sure he knows what to do now!

  12. corkbhoy –

     

     

    any chance of the odd comma at least? I had to take oxygen after reading that ;-)

     

     

    whoamitocriticiseCSC

  13. jobo baldie

     

     

    20:00 on 10 September, 2013

     

    Naismith isn’t being allowed to play his usual diving game due to the Macedonians actually repeatedly fouling him. Not sure he knows what to do now!

     

     

     

     

    In fairness Davie Moyes at Everton knocked that out of him and Jelavic.

     

     

    He fines his players for diving.

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