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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jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/ 22:52 on 10 September, 2013
Heard the abuse Anya took but did UEFA??
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Jude I watched the game and never picked up on the abuse you mention. I assume you mean racial abuse of the young lad?
Sadie
They got horsed 3-0 in Naples a few months later so missed out on England 66. We got a half day from school to watch it on telly.
The great man picked a strange line up that day. Was it not Ron Yeats at Centre forward?
ourselves alone
St. Bart’s did supply a Celtic player around the same time Tony McBride was there.
Tommy Livingstone was one of the Celtic reserve goalies in the mid 60s.
Summa,
will email you/PM you on FB with Ross’s details.
Muchos gracias big fella even for trying!
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
D D
Thot I read that he was an other side fan. Might be wrang. I wd still go for him tho. Tidy player.
SFTB
St. Barts supplied Eddie and Frank Gray also.
Evening champions
Not long in from a wee night at cardinal Newman in bellshill.
Big thanks to roy croppie for the invite and taking my pics with bertie auld and dixie deans
A great night with them amd Charlie gallagher .. tommy callaghan .. and the big holy goalie john fallon.
Most of the night remembering big jock … wee bertie saying what a man amd manager he was.
Im blessed to be in that company ..
acgr
Was in the first half.Maybe it was because he was giving the R B a roasting. But I dont think so.
setting free the bears supports celtic’s best fighter- wee oscar knox
23:04 on 10 September, 2013
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.
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I respect your position on this matter. I guess my own differs because I don’t regard myself as Scottish and they have given me too many reasons over the past 5 decades or so to recognise that they don’t see me and my type as Scottish either. I used to support Scotland as a teenager and can still remember them turning up at games wearing their Rangers scarves to cheer on the inevitable six Rangers players who seemed to inhabit every Scotland team managed by Ian MacColl, and other former arrangers players who seemed to be their first port of call.
When the booing of Celtic players took hold and Kenny was dropped by Willie Ormond, I knew that this was not my team.
marrakesh
It was Ron Yeats that was picked for that match (4 Rangers players and one ex-Ger and only two Celts- Murdoch & Hughes). Big Jock must have been biased too :-)
We complain about the few times our Lions were picked by Scotland but Big Jock regularly used to pull them from squads when they had been picked. He would also get mad at them when they opted out of squads when he thought they should play, as happened to Jinky once.
SFTB, I liked the last sentence of your post at 23.04. Why should we have to give up supporting our country because the body that oversee them are a shower of shite?
I was shouting for the players on the park tonight, even the walkaway deidheids. I wasn’t shouting for the SFA.
Awe FFS, I’ve just realised I don’t even own a tin hat.
corry & BM
Thanks for the comments.
This one has a good, upbeat tune – ideal to get a crowd singing along. Only problem is that I cannot sing a note!
Jim Croce produced a litany of wonderful songs – simple but meaningful lyrics based on his observations of life. I cannot understand why his songs have not been covered by others – he remains a hidden gem!.
SFTB
You are correct, tommy was an exceptional keeper (as a school boy) but just couldn’t make it in the big leagues like so many others.
BTW, we can also claim Frankie Gray, Leeds Utd, wanted to go to Celtic but big brother Eddie stole him away, the best natural left footed player I have ever seen for his age at that time.
ourselves alone.
There’s a new bart’s now, I’ve seen st julies built and flattened in my time back and forth to castlemilk.
I started getting the glenacre bus of late with my bhoy…good banter on it.
marrakesh express
23:10 on 10 September, 2013
Sadie
They got horsed 3-0 in Naples a few months later so missed out on England 66. We got a half day from school to watch it on telly.
The great man picked a strange line up that day. Was it not Ron Yeats at Centre forward?
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I remember that game too. Afternoon midweek kick off. Yes it was a weird team Big Jock put out. You’re right about Ron Yeats up front. Seem to remember their winger (Bruno Conti) performing a lot of tricks on the ball and generally running riot.
Much as i dislike international fitba, i like to see celtic players do well (and come back uninjured) regardless of the nation the represent.
TET
“I agree, but they have been temporary for as long as you and I can remember, and beyond.”
We could say the same thing about the Celtic Board but we still support the team.
praecepta
Frank Gray was St. Bart’s and St. Maggie’s . I think the family may have lived elsewhere when Eddie Gray went to school
TOSB
I really doubt that Willie Ormond had any say in Kenny Dalglish’s dropping. Willie had continued to pick Kenny when his Scotland form justified his being dropped. Kenny was in a better vein of form when he was de-selected. That strongly suggests that someone told Willie Ormond that a Celtic player was not breaking George Young’s record and Willie complied. I think Kenny went on to break the Scotland consecutive appearance record as a Liverpool player.
It is strange that all those Rangers biases were stronger in the 60s and 70s when we generally supported Scotland than they were in the 80s and 90s (witness Paul McStay’s selection record) when Celtic fans decided they were not Scottish anymore.
I think it had a lot to do with the emergence of a creditable ROI team which we could support instead.
ourselves alone 23.21
the grays had a sister who had a mean left foot too.
remember her running riot in a ladies 5 a side tournament at the savings bank at cowglen
Big Nan
Fair play to you.
Petition signed.
Teuchter
It’s really no an easy choice, most of us are born and bred in scotland, yet many of us can’t bring ourselfs to support the national team.
We all know the reasons why.
Now we have a problem, a problem that we shouldn’t be having, but it’s there all the same.
When I was a wean, didn’t know anything about the sectarian divide, I wanted to see my country winning, didn’t have a clue, or was bothered about who was playing, just wanted scotland to win.
As I got older, more informed, things changed, I don’t want to feel the way I do.
How do we get our football back ???????????????????
It’s our game, we are the ones who make the game what it is, not the shysters who run the game, it’s about the support, as the Big Man said.
Take our game back, give it back to the people who really matter.
A level playing field.
Is that really too much to ask for.
It’s 2013 FFS, no 1690.
HH
TOSB
Bruno Conti was an Italian internationalist in the 80s.
It was Bruno Mora of AC who played for Italy in 65
SFTB
Eddie lived on Castlemilk Drive (facing Cavin) – was in the year above me just after school opened. James who was a good player (and blew it) was in year below me.
My uncle was headmaster at St. Julies (the replacement school).
Sipsini
Been out of Glasgow for a long time, don’t go back much anymore.
Wow, the Glenacre bus, that must be one of the oldest going. My old Da ( God rest him) was one of the founding members. Always great banter on any Celtic bus. Love it
Oh, have to say never get tired of watching Larsson and Lubo wearing the hoops
sftb
No, no ,no.
{ We could say the same thing about the Celtic Board but we still support the team.}
How can you justify that sentance, seriously ?
It’s night and day compared to the national team, and you well know it.
Whatever problems we as a support have with our suits, at the end of the day, they have, and have had, the best interests of the club at heart, and I truly believe that, whether they have gone about things in the correct manner is another matter.
To compare the custodians of the sfa to our club, sorry mi amigo…..dearie me >}
HH
twotams
Always be careful of women with a mean left foot, ouch
Played with their brother Davie, a right footer, decent player but not in the same league as his siblings.
Nir Biton is unlikely to make his debut against Hearts this weekend due to a delay in his work visa being processed. Biton has been granted a work permit however the processing of his visa is taking longer than expected with the application having to pass through the British Embassy in Turkey.
Posted earlier….but a great nostalgic read…
http://celticunderground.net/the-celtic-memory-test/
Teuchter ar la
TET
I compare them only in the sense of their both being temporary.
As you know from my posts here, I do not believe our Board have harmed me or my team anywhere near as much as the SFA have.
I was projecting a situation where the Board may give us a dilemma about continuing to support or not. I was not suggesting that this situation already exists.
My sole point is that the SFA, though they are an impediment for us all, are not the National team. It is possible to support Scotland and want them to win without giving the SFA credit for it.
SFTB
See ‘ourselves alone’ refers to a brother Davie – I might be mistaken calling him James (he was the middle brother – would be 63-64ish now).
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Token..
Mail..
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setting free the bears supports celtic’s best fighter- wee oscar knox
23:28 on 10 September, 2013
TET
“I agree, but they have been temporary for as long as you and I can remember, and beyond.”
We could say the same thing about the Celtic Board but we still support the team.
praecepta
Frank Gray was St. Bart’s and St. Maggie’s . I think the family may have lived elsewhere when Eddie Gray went to school
TOSB
I really doubt that Willie Ormond had any say in Kenny Dalglish’s dropping. Willie had continued to pick Kenny when his Scotland form justified his being dropped. Kenny was in a better vein of form when he was de-selected. That strongly suggests that someone told Willie Ormond that a Celtic player was not breaking George Young’s record and Willie complied. I think Kenny went on to break the Scotland consecutive appearance record as a Liverpool player.
It is strange that all those Rangers biases were stronger in the 60s and 70s when we generally supported Scotland than they were in the 80s and 90s (witness Paul McStay’s selection record) when Celtic fans decided they were not Scottish anymore.
I think it had a lot to do with the emergence of a creditable ROI team which we could support instead.
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I agree with you absolutely. Prior to the emergence of a creditable ROI team we never really got a chance to see the ROI playing football. I love supporting ROI in international matches. I feel a sense of identity supporting them.
I agree also about Willie Ormond. I’m sure he was instructed from on high to omit Kenny from the team on the night in question the game in this country has always been run to benefit one team. However, I didn’t fully appreciate exactly how corrupt it was until the revelation that have been made post Administration Day 14 February 2012.
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TBJ Praying for Oscar Knox
23:16 on
10 September, 2013
Evening champions
Not long in from a wee night at cardinal Newman in bellshill.
Big thanks to roy croppie for the invite and taking my pics with bertie auld and dixie deans
A great night with them amd Charlie gallagher .. tommy callaghan .. and the big holy goalie john fallon.
Most of the night remembering big jock … wee bertie saying what a man amd manager he was.
Im blessed to be in that company ..
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*Presses ‘Like’ button*
Summa
praecepta
Was your uncle called eddie?
jeez
Pat (ex-Mungo).
I suppose there will be a whip round in Sec.111 to pay the UEFA fine. : > )
Comparing the SFA with the Celtic board is indeed fantastical in the extreme. It’s like comparing the creature from Alien with my neighbour’s new kitten. They’re both a pain in the arse but one of them is also truly evil.
ourselves alone.
They had their 50th last year.
The blokes that run it were invited to Celtic park last season.
It’s goodnight from me.HH
sftb
I think we are both on the same page, we maybes see things a tad differently, I don’t know.
The support are for ever, that is a given, the scotland support have been driven away by the custodians of the game in scotland, that is nigh on a fact.
They in their desire to support one club, have driven our support away, they in their desire to support of one club, have driven them away cos their support are so feckin thick they canny see it.
Temporary is what it says on the tin, our suits are, the suits at the sfa are not, and never have been.
That may well change, but I won’t be holding my breath.
HH