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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Seems Australians are concerned about an influx of “boat people”
A whole fifty thousand of them over the last six years,and THIS became the turning point of the election.
Bloody hell,talk about over-reaction. The way it was getting reported,I thought they were getting fifty thousand a week.
No,only about 160 a week. Enough to swing an election though.
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The Singing Detective Demands The Resignation Of Campbell Ogilvie
04:04 on
11 September, 2013
Ho! Summa & Sydney Tim….
How’s The Weather Down In Papua New Guinea Way…..?
Making Friends Amongst Your New Neighbours….?
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STD..
You obviously know Australians in Papua New Guinea were butchered with Machetes yesterday.. with 2 deaths..
You must be one sicko..Maybe time to get off the Puter..
Summa
SUMMA OF SAMMI
I was unaware of that.
Barbaric.
A few words about Chris Graham
I have difficulty accepting that them supporters see anything of value in this chap. Surely there would be someone else of more considerable substance than this “leader”
He wouldn’t be a satisfactory lower civil servant. Ah well ? same as Ally McCoist – I hope he stays too.
Ho ! Summa Of Hysteria….
I’m Clearly Not Omniscient…..
Dontcha Know..?
Anyway,One No Longer Needs To Travel All The Way To PN-G…..
To Run The Risk Of Being Chopped Up With Machetes….
Three Days After Drummer Lee Rigby Was Murdered By Savages In Woolwich…
Two More Individuals Were Seriously Injured In A Machete Attack In Accrington..
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/hyndburn/accrington/10446384.Machete_attack_horror_at_Accrington_barber_s_shop/
Now Reach For The ‘Rescue Remedy’…..
And Your “Little Book Of Calm’..
Then E-X-H-A-L-E….!
Better Already……..?
Sargassosea
02:01 on 11 September, 2013
twotams, Auldheid,
I was at Cowglen between 67 and 73. Played CF and scored some goals in both Sat morning and afternoon teams! KD’s future wife was also there during that time.
Some great players in those teams and ‘team building’ at Joanna’s on a Monday night and White Elephant on a Thursday.
Ithinkitwastheniaroo CSC
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Joanna’s on a Monday night and White Elephant on a Thursday……
..now there’s a blast from the past….
Joanna’s…. used to meet in the pub up the street (horse an saddle or summin similar??) used to buy tickets fur the nurses nights!!
Morning champions
Lets hope our players all return to glasgow fit and healthy .
TBJ… can’t wait to see Pukki banging them in…
Desertbhoy
I was talking to dixie deans last night.. asked him about our strikers.. said from what he has seen he thinks teemu will score goals.
Good morning friends from a dry but dark grey skied EK.
Oh well, internationals now over for a while. Back to business on Saturday lunchtime in convincing fashion I hope.
…good, hopefully vindicates my belief in Pukki.
..hope you didn’t remind him about penalty kicks!!
Desertbhoy
Dixie was asked about the penalty miss.
He told us that the week before he had scored a hat trick against hibs.. was on a great scoring streak but was never a penalty taker.
When the moment came… he took the first kick… but told us of the nerves as he walked from the halfway line in front of 80000 ..he said he hadnt realised the format of the pens or the pressure.
Said he just wanted the ground to open up after it.
Just checked the ‘regimental blues’ FB page. My word they are an extremely hideous bunch both physically and mentally. Worth checking out the site just for the pictures of the group alone – The cream of Loyalist Scotland – OMG! To refer to them as Illiterate knuckle draggers would be a gross insult to illiterate knuckle draggers, no these Huns are about as far down the Hominoid evolutionary tree as one can go. Somewhat difficult to differentiate between female and male Huns, I am reliably informed that there are 2 sexes but really difficult to tell without DNA testing . The police should ban the ‘parade’ simply to save the citizenry of Glasgow’s east end the horror of staring at their horrible visages.
All together now “Have you seen a handsome Hun? Noooo, Nooooh”
TBJ… yes, will be in his memory for the rest of his days; ours as well, but don’t expect we went through the same anguish as him.
Take it he’s given up on the tumbles at his age.
What is the real cost of building a few stadia + hosting a World Cup?
Qatar, which is preparing for the 2022 World Cup, has particularly faced international union scrutiny over its workplace safety record.
The number of falls from heights has nearly doubled from 600 in 2008 to 1000, according to the director of the Trauma Intensive Care Unit at Hamad Medical Corporation, Dr Ahmed Zarour.
The International Trade Union Confederation slammed the country as a “21st-century slave state” earlier this year over its alleged poor conditions for guest workers and human rights abuses.
The world’s leading union claimed that 191 Nepali workers died in Qatar in 2010, most of them because of heart attacks caused by outdoor temperatures rising to up to 50C.
“More labourers will die in Qatar during construction than the footballers who step on the pitch,” secretary general Sharan Burrow told AFP.
“The way Qatar takes advantage of migrant workers is a disgrace to football.”
Expect something in the region of 25,000 fatalities before the opening ceremony…
Morning all
whats this thing about the gallowgate?any links to pukki goal ?hh
Top of the morning from a grey, cloudy, still Fife where it looks like we could be in for rain.
Hope all our players come back unscathed, but I doubt it, and even if they avoid injury they will be jaded.
Scotland looked good at times last night and if wee Anya ends up with a hooped jersey on I wouldn’t be too unhappy.
From last night: Teuchter ár lá
23:30 on 10 September, 2013
Big Nan
Fair play to you.
Petition signed.
Teuchter
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No problem Teuchter and please circulate as I am currently banned from Facebook and Twitter for spreading this link:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/GettingInvolved/Petitions/judgesmasonregister
51 short of a thousand supporters now from the following countries: Jersey, Brazil, Italy, Mexico, United States, Canada, Albania, Sweden, Indonesia, Cambodia, Norway, Netherlands, Nauru, Spain, Germany, Afghanistan, France, Australia, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, Taiwan, India, Scotland, England, Ireland, Wales, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
Teuchter ar la
petition on twitter again h.h
tommysbhoy
07:36 on 11 September, 2013
Morning all
whats this thing about the gallowgate?any links to pukki goal ?hh
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links a few pages back…
A gentle breeze flow the Chilterns this morning…
We’ve got Ikechi, Ikechi, Ikechi
On the wing, on the wing.
We’ve got Ikechi, Ikechi, Ikechi
On the wing, on the wing.
Ikechi…………. Ikechi Anya
Ikechi…………. On the wing
Ikechi…………. Ikechi Anya
Ikechi Anya on the wing…..
Well done to Gordon and the boys.
Armageddion avoided once more….
tommysbhoy
Link for Pukki’s goal is at the top of this page….3rd post down.
HH
Morning all, wondering how much coverage was given in the Belgian papers to the flares their support had on Friday night and when do we expect UEFA to fine them.
Also, when will they deal with Macedonia for the disgusting racist bile dished out to wee Anya last night?
I won’t hold my breath!
Anyone think that the way Celtic are fined by Uefa for supposed offensive singing at Celtic Park and flares etc is down to the man from Bonkle?
Big Nan – re: Petition, I signed it a while back… I admit I put my Country as Scotland rather than Ireland (I get away with it as I am Scottish!) as wasn’t sure they’d be counted….
It’s breath-taking to see the diversity of the signatures made… but hopefully there isn’t a loophole?
On Celtic matters – any confirmation on Lustig’s injury?
Just in to say…
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Big Nan
07:42 on 11 September, 2013
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Petition signed – comment made.
Smoke em oot – CSC
Hail Hail – Off oot.
burghbhoy
07:59 on 11 September, 2013
Morning all, wondering how much coverage was given in the Belgian papers to the flares their support had on Friday night and when do we expect UEFA to fine them.
Also, when will they deal with Macedonia for the disgusting racist bile dished out to wee Anya last night?
I won’t hold my breath!
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There’s always one pedant and this time it’s me. This was a FIFA competition not UEFA.
Though your point is still valid.
Back in again…
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Big Nan
08:15 on 11 September, 2013
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I went onto SSB one night and asked – “If Dallas was sacked by the SFA – why was he then employed by UEFA who make such a big play about – anti-racism / sectarianism issues ?”
Needless to say – I was attacked by – Hugh Keevins / Mark Guidi / Jim Delahunt – and told not to be so paranoid.
Celbridge Celt
08:19 on 11 September, 2013
Big Nan – re: Petition, I signed it a while back… I admit I put my Country as Scotland rather than Ireland (I get away with it as I am Scottish!) as wasn’t sure they’d be counted….
It’s breath-taking to see the diversity of the signatures made… but hopefully there isn’t a loophole?
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The support feature of the Scottish Parliament has a drop down menu giving the countries of the world so of course it counts, but only as an indication of where the main concerns are coming from.
I know for a fact that the parliament get concerned when public petitions attract a lot of support and publicity as mostly they {MSPs} like to keep their work covered.
Sound familiar?
It will be kicked into the long grass if they have their way but we must keep at them and get the same as Norway: http://www.tomminogue.com/blog7.php
thomthethim for oscar ok
23:52 on 10 September, 2013
I suppose there will be a whip round in Sec.111 to pay the UEFA fine. : > )
Why ?
Dubaibhoy 7.34
That is truly horrific
Morning Bhoys and Ghirls a wee mention to keep one of our own in your thoughts today. It is Starry Plough’s wee mums funeral this morning.
Starry Plough and Catherine Y.N.W.A.
KTF
HH
monteblanco
08:40 on 11 September, 2013
Dubaibhoy 7.34
That is truly horrific
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..fact of life for TCN’s working in these mega rich middle east countries. These things never get published/media coverage. Recall not so long ago dozens (indians i think) were killed in a collapse of something building the new terminal 3 at the airport.
Has anyone got a concise listing of the various bullying tactics the Sevconians have employed throughout this saga?
Forward it to the BBC as a reminder of the kind of people they are appeasing.
Of course, Phil Macs entire book is a litany of bullying and threats to try and stop his book getting published.
You should never appease a bully.
desertbhoy
Can’t help but think of the Mel Gibson film, Apocalypto. Change the slave masters to Fifa businessmen and the temples to stadia…….jeezo, that was supposed to be thousands of years ago.
So redundancies at greyskull on Friday.
Ordinary people losing their jobs while the sleekit 1 brought in new players.
Disgusting eh anything to get back to the top and they call us obsessed.
The old club stole from creditors and kept a large part of the charity money will they ever learn.
monteblanco,
It is shocking. Those stats only mention falls from height, which is the most common cause of fatalities, but only one of many. As the article suggests, fatalities are investigated, however heart attacks are a favourite ’cause of death’ as they are classified as ‘natural causes’, thereby negating the requirement for compensation payouts.
Well done the BBC for backing Jim Spence.
Hands up anyway who thinks Sevco will take this the whole road ? Nah me neither.
They know we know they are deed.
I think the say no to liquidation red card protest is the killer for them :)
Luxembourg last night – what a result. 3-2 over Norn Iron… played them off the park. Hit the post, a couple of near misses – thoroughly deserved. 1200 Norn Irish in the City – all of them pig sick after the match!!!