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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BR
Thank’s.
TT
was on the regimental blues facebook
absolute sectarian racist loyalist pro rangers nonsense
let them march
they will show exactly what kind of morons they really are
eejits still living in 1690s
TOSB
I tend to agree with you re the SFA
However the appointment if WGS is a positive move ….and the lack of sevco players capable of playing international football …gives him a free run to pick who he wants
On the anniversary of the passing of Mr Jock Stein. His Scots did him proud.
masty is neil lennon and both of us are supporting wee oscar
20:06 on 10 September, 2013
corkbhoy
at the time you are talking about there was a guy from castlemilk called andy moffat, what a player he was, he was down at arsenal I think..
*what about Tony McBride Pat reckoned tae be the best prospect among a team of future legends
west csc
22:19 on 10 September, 2013
was on the regimental blues facebook
absolute sectarian racist loyalist pro rangers nonsense
let them march
they will show exactly what kind of morons they really are
eejits still living in 1690s
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Bit of kettling is called for here! Keep scum out of the Calton!
I hate the SFA and their support for one club over all others.
Gordon Strachan loves Scotland and that job, the players play for him, themselves and the fans, not the SFA.
They want to play to qualify for a tournament AND our Captain loves playing for his country.
These are good enough reasons to support Scotland despite the disgusting behaviour of the SFA down the years. It isn’t the 70’s where Celtic players are booed – the fans who did that now follow Engurlund or Norn Iron and hate Scotland.
When fans come together to support players who are in part a number of our own both current and previous in the hope they give the country something to smile about we should be supportive if not supporting.
That’s what I believe anyway.
Let’s all concentrate on our game at Tynecastle on Saturday. And let the scum show themselves up. Screw the nut and batten down the hatches on the Gallowgate. The polis will be out in force
Theoriginalsadiesboy
Agree..shameful past. Go back 80 years it was worse. How many caps did the great Jimmy McGrory get, 7? It was the same with many other Celtic greats. Henderson got more caps than Jinky. Murdoch 12-13. Years ago I checked the total caps of the Lisbon Lions and the Oldco 72 Ecwc side. If my memory serves me correct I think Oldco won more.
Says it all.
hrvatski jim
Brilliant interpretation of a fantastic song…..you are such a bright fella
The Rythmn of you’re lyric is spot on…..
Sorry missedbwhen you posted it but but worth going back CQN’ers if you know the song
Jungle would have loved it…..mibbees!!!
Long time since I posted, first of al,l well done WGS’s Scotland team, not often do you get to say that these days.
To Corkcelt
You are correct, Danny Moffat did play for St. Dom’s and the Maggies, great player as were several others ( Tony McBride what a waste of talent) I played in the same team as them at the Maggies , back in the day as they say now.
Not many in that team did not play for St. Dom’s.
Anyway, back to lurking…….Hail Hail to all the Castlemilk Tims tonight
hrvatski jim
His Big Jock song is what the blog should aspire to …not the petty dog shit of the Scottish Meeja Illiterati….
JIM is The Litterati…after three ….it’s that Jim Croce song!!
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy
22:18 on 10 September, 2013
setting free the bears supports celtic’s best fighter- wee oscar knox
21:54 on 10 September, 2013
john Greig in preference to Danny McGrain in their correct positions.
*when Scotland beat Italy in a WC game which I along with some St Kessog’s lhads watched in the Balloch Hotel ham and egg was played at left back in a team picked by Big Jock. He scored the winner from a brilliant pass from Bobby Murdoch who played at right half that night.
Guess who got all the plaudits
Snake
I sort of agree with you.
I have warmed to scotland since WGS took the job, a waft of change has engulfed the nation, whether it does any good, time will tell.
I really want to believe they have had their time, time that they have all but destroyed the game in scotland, maybes our day will come, who knows, the first thing that needs done is a level playing field, then we will see where we get to.
Sadly I won’t be around to see it, but hopefully my kids will, for sure their kids will, just a shame that it’s taken this long for any change to rear it’s head, but hey ho, it’s scotland, just the way it is.
HH
Snake,
I concur.
As ive stated several times on here in the past. I fell out of love with my country in the late 80’s early 90s.
There is a small kernel beginning to reform in me. I didnt watch the game tonight, but did watch afir bit of last Fri nights game. Something I have not done for manys a year.
WGS looks like he is beginning to settle the team down and hopefully he can build on this.
As to the tartan army. Im not a fan, but they are mainly based of guys from smaller clubs and many east coasters. I think bery few sevconians go to support scotland any more. Times have changed greatly in that respect …..and for the better!
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
Tontine Tim
Tony McBride was about 4 years older than me at school. I saw him play every day. For me he was the best player in Castlemilk, and there was some talent up there in the late 60s. Big Stein earmarked him as the new Jinky and took him to CP at the same time as Kenny and Danny. It didnt work out but he would have fitted easily into the quality street gang.
….pfayr supports weeoscar
22:21 on 10 September, 2013
TOSB
I tend to agree with you re the SFA
However the appointment if WGS is a positive move ….and the lack of sevco players capable of playing international football …gives him a free run to pick who he wants
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I’ll be hoping Scotland win every game under Gordon Strachan but I don’t support them. The night before Gordon was officially sanctioned as Scotland manager (and I seem to remember them taking their time in finally making the appointment) BFDJ was on Radio Clyde e hurting them to give the job to Billy Stark who was in temporary charge at the time. Everyone else seemed to want Gordon but he’ll would have to have frozen over before BFDJ was going to give him his blessing.
It’s just symptomatic of what anyone involved with Celtic is up against in trying to make a mark in this country. Yesterday I read on CQN that the supporters of Xombie FC were upset that Lee Wallace hadn’t been selected to start tonight. One of them cited that he had a great game recently against Albion Rovers – a fourth tier team.
As I passed the newsagents today there was a sandwich board from the DR about Wallace, the hack on SSB tonight was saying he wished that Wallace had been selected and on BT, Billy Dodds was telling us that he preferred Wallace at left back. This is what we’re up against. They all seem to be on message. I wondered ‘why all this sudden obsession with Wallace?’ Lo and behold but someone on here supplies the answer earlier. Sevco will get a payment from the SFA for one of their players representing Scotland. They happen to be desperate for cash.
I wonder also if they see Wallace as a marketable asset to be sold in January. If he is involved with the Scotland team won’t that also hike up his value in the transfer market? How many other Sevco players are likely to attract transfer fees in January?
Good night all
Please let it be true that the BBC will back Jim Spence.
I wonder also if they see Wallace as a marketable asset to be sold in January. If he is involved with the Scotland team won’t that also hike up his value in the transfer market? How many other Sevco players are likely to attract transfer fees in January?
None as they play in the 3rd teir of Scottish football and they are all shite HH
My memory of Big Jock is summed up in this article written for CelticUnderground:
http://celticunderground.net/take-heart-progress-has-been-made/
Off to bed.
RIP JS
Gents,
im looking for a favour. well 2 actually, but the second can wait till later.
A mate of mine who now works in Belgium, is looking for 2 tickets to the Ajax game in Amsterdam.
He has bought the 3-match home package but will only be able to make it back for the Milan game, so he would be willing to swap (or something like that) the Barca and Ajax home tickets to anyone who could get him the 2 tix for Amsterdam.
Im going to apply myself and see if I can get them, but given I have sourced tickets for away games locally rather than direct from Celtic, in recent years it is unlikely I will be lucky in applying.
Anyway, any help would be very much appreciated.
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
Heard the abuse Anya took but did UEFA??
ourselves alone.
What age are you mate… St julies myself.HH
Evening All,
Which copper famously said that? Suppose that’s an easy question since the average age on here is much much older than me.
Muchas gracias to Kickintheknackas for his very kind testimonial re my business.
I can only reiterate any Central belt Celts in need of car repairs/ advice I would be very happy to help out. Branches in Bathgate, Livingston, Broxburn and Falkirk.
Met two ex Celts today Tom Boyd and Mark Burchill both top blokes
Hail hail to all fellow tims PB1888
The BBC have not been the pure example of perfection when it comes to performing their duty in regard to informing the public.
They have on historical occasions been deserving of medals and such like throughout their illustrious past. (no organisation can be perfect Govts, churches, etc )
The disappointment I experienced when I read their smarmy “apology to Rangers fans”.
for upsetting them gave me a feeling of hopelessness for Scotland’s future.
Where are we when the tax supported broadcaster capitulates in the face of intimidation from a number of persons that for some obscure reason cannot recognise the truth.
Where have you been BBC ?
and are you coming back?
Re-mail request.
If you emailed me and didn’t receive a ringtone, email me again. Keep it coming.
If you’ve not emailed me WTF you waiting for?
Drive those huns demented / even more demented, get some in, get it here, get Zadok the Priest. You know it makes sense………………………………………………Nice:_))
Tontime Tim
I remember it only too well. One of the chip wrappers (Evening Times?) used it as an excuse to run a series of articles over a number of weeks entitled Greig The Greatest.
Jonny the Tim supporting wee Oscar
21:29 on 10 September, 2013
After that result in Luxembourg, I hope O’Neill is in the frame for the boss of the 3rd incarnation of “thems”!
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Michael o neil is one of us mate he would not touch the huns with 2 barge poles,
I would like to see wee Anya in the hoops. Think the green and white would suit him
Tontine Tim
Scotland v Italy game was 1965 – Danny was aged 15.
Jock Stein record in the European Cup…
10 tournaments
1 win
1 runner up
2 Semis
2 quarters
Rangers 1872..
13 tournaments
1 Semi
4 quarters
(Record 12-4 agg defeat in semi 1959/60)
What a smashing free kick from wee Shaun. When him and Charlie were standing over the ball I was calling for the wee man, young acgr was calling for Charlie. For once Daddy acgr was right. The Macedonia scored was a peach.
Well done Scotland and well done to Gordon Strachan for putting a team on the park that played some football. I’m not so sure about his choice of putting third tier players in the national squad, but it’s his squad and I guess he wants the dead club supporters on board. Will it work? Who cares?
TOSB & others
I think I may not have made my position clear.
I agree with you and the other posters that the SFA have shown all the bias you and they stated but…..
they don’t own the national team anymore than Dermot Desmond or Peter Lawwell or Neil Lennon owns Celtic; they are merely temporary custodians.
I may protest the SFA’s handling of the national team by not going to the games, in the same way i may protest against Celtic if one of the aforementioned had been proven to have behaved badly enough.
However, i would not want Celtic to stop winning while I protested and so, I do not want Scotland to lose either. Scotland were good enough for Jock Stein, Big Billy and other Celts to answer the call.
I live and work here. I am not surrendering the national team to them.
tontine,
what about Tony McBride Pat reckoned tae be the best prospect among a team of future legends
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some player so they say, just a wee bit older than me, although do remember the story of big jock arse necking him out of the brazen one Monday morning.
Sipsini
A very sprite 62. A St Bart’s man myself, not many others around when we moved up to Castlemilk, circa 1954 ish.
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Token..
Not promising.. but leave it with me..
Could you send your mates Contact details..
001
snake plissken
My position is more or less the same as yourself. I’ll want Scotland to win because it’s what Gordon, Scott, Charlie and Shaun want (David Marshall too). I remember there was a similar feeling when Tommy Docherty took over the Scotland job and he cleaned out most of the Rangers players who had not been selected on merit. When he left it slowly reverted to type. I’ll be pleasantly surprised if it doesn’t do so again.
sftb
Temporary custodians.
I agree, but they have been temporary for as long as you and I can remember, and beyond.
Maybes things are for a changin, who knows, but I will tell you this, they will not give up their hold without a fight.
HH