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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lux team comprised of foundry smelters then…eh.
Good Morning,
Can I encourage as many as possible to have a wee watch of the Silent Odyssey documentary that was shown on STV last night– featuring the incredible journey of Deaf Maths teacher Gerry Hughes who set of on a ten month journey to sail solo around the world.
Gerry’s story is an incredible one, detailing how he could neither read nor write, was profoundly deaf and couldn’t speak, yet how he ovcercame those handicaps to become a respected and well loved teacher.
However, from an early age he could understand maps and charts even though he did not know the name of his street!
When he saw Francis Chichester circumnavigate the world he determined that one day he would do the same, rounding the 5 great Capes.
The documentary covers his preparations, his separation from family and the troubles he endured in achieving this goal– and it is very emotional, and heart warming.
The fact that he is deaf means that he cannot hear the wind or sea and so it is his other senses and instincts that kick in. In times of trouble he cannot radio for help like other sailors, and if his equipment goes than he is absolutely on his own.
It is a great story.
I will confess to an interest as I work for the company who produced the documentary- 5 Minute Network — and I know the actors who provide the voices etc.
To watch this program come together has been both an education and a privilege, as the guys have tracked every inch of Gerry’s Journey from Glasgow, and helped in getting emergency supplies to him after the boat capsized in the Southern Atlantic.
The program can be seen on STV player – here is the link- http://player.stv.tv/programmes/incredible-stories/2013-09-10-2100/
and if you enjoy it please pass it on to others.
I love stories about people doing their own thing and reaching their own goals and this ranks among the best because it is a lifetime ambition and I believe Gerry is now the only deaf seaman to have managed all 5 capes singlehandedly.
Cheers
BRTH
Henr1k: I must have missed something. Did the BBC come out and publicly give backing to Jim Spence?
Let’s keep the pressure up on the BBC. There are reports of behind the scenes talks, but nothing has been made public as yet.
400 of the deluded complained that they are not dead. I’m sure we can get many more than that to stand up for Jim Spence.
Why Do I Bother?
09:29 on 11 September, 2013
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Do you think that in the fullness of time – Jim Spence will have to base himself ootside of this nice wee country(Scotland) – tae get oot his version of the truth ala Phil Mac ?
HH
BRTH-My wife and I watched the programme last night and were just transfixed by what Gerry achieved it was simply an outstanding story and well told by all involved. HH
Hen1rik , whats the story regarding redundancies this friday
KevJ : the thought had occurred to me. Perhaps Jim Spence could work for C4 and get fully stuck in to reporting the whole truth. AT has bigger fish to fry.
desertbhoy
09:25 on
11 September, 2013
Almost. Luxembourg actually had 4 pros in the team last night – more than normal. MArio Mutsch who played against us for FC Basel in the qualifiers CL game is their most experienced player. They had a very young team out. I think they targeted last night as a game to win. Got as many of their pros playing as they could, and went for the win, rather than parking the bus. They knew NI were vulnerable.
Absiolutely massive result for them.
Why Do I Bother?
09:39 on 11 September, 2013
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Yeah – maybe JS’s old pal Stuart Cosgrove might put in a wee word for him ?
HH
For those who can not access youtube in work, would someone gez a wee description of Pukki’s goal. Sad I know, looking forward to seeing this lad playing.
Well done to the Ginger Helmsman, wee Shaun, Broony and Cha Mul Grew on the Scotland win last night.
TartanArmyCSC
Maybe we should sign a new Physio
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24029055
For those like me who have taken a complaint through the whole BBC process right to the Trust Appeal it was good to see the person in charge of that process, Lucy Adams, being called a liar in front of the nation on live TV, when Margaret Hodge said this: “I don’t want to hear any more lies today”.
The BBC are a shower.
desertbhoy,
that is truly shocking.
However the sad/unforgiveable fact, is that human life in places such as the middle east and the “far ” east, especially those of so called migrant workers, is just not valued in the same way as local people or those of a better caste/class.
Ive seen it myself first hand in Indonesia, Malyasia, Philippines etc. These people are treated as sub-humans. The overwhelming feeling that is projected is that of “well there’s plenty more where they come from, so who cares”.
It is not nice to witness and when challenged (as I stupidly did once) these people look at you as if you are crazy.
Desertbhoy, no doubt you have experienced something like this too, but as the “white face/man” on some places, the migrant workers treat you like you are their master.
I was on a power station in Malaysia recently, and there were 3 workers assigned to carry out some pipe-fitting work for us. During a break my colleague happened to say to one of these guys “there’s some water of there” as in help yourselves (it was 34deg C and working on a boiler with only a few inches of metal and brick between us and the 1000deg C temps inside the boiler so safe to say it was a tad warm – we had full PPE on, typically those guys had nothing!), the guy jumped up, ran over grabbed a bottle and ran to my mate saying, “there you go boss”, whilst opening the bottle and handing it to him almost reverently!
The idea that the bottle was for him was clearly beyond his comprehension.
Really is eye-opening when you travel to these places.
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
Jack Charlton’s era with the ROI was the beginning and end of my interest in international fitba.
My two favorite teams – Cellic n Aberdeen.
I wish WGS and big Mark McGhee well but – maybe WGS might want to consider – why did the SFA wait until WGS took the Middlesboro job before sacking George Burley – whilst WGS was unemployed ?
Or – was that the doing of the previous bunch of ‘secret society’ members ?
Six of one – half a dozen of the other – CSC
Quote from Gordon Strachan on the goalkeeper situation at the start of the second half
“That was brilliant.” said Strachan. “Then he blew his whistle. There was no reason for him to blow his whistle. You can’t just say to a player ‘Just come on!’
“It’s one of these things we’ll be talking about for a long time. I think the game should have played on. There was absolutely no way he should have stopped the game until the ball had gone out of play. That would be my understanding of the rule.”
It never ceases to amaze me that those in professional football don’t actually know the laws of the game.
A match can not start or restart without a goalkeeper and as soon as the referee realised this he had to stop the game.
Dubaibhoy 07.34
Thats an astonishing post.
big nan @ 09:47
I bet your complaint took a lot longer than the 400 sevconians one. If it did, how did the sevconians complaint get to the BBC trust so quickly. It normally goes through weeks of “editorial” investigation. Fast tracked?
Sorry that post was for Dubaibhoy, although I think desertbhoy as well as Monteblanco did reply to it!
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
Kjam,
Collects the ball, advances towards goal, rattles it 18 yards out as two defenders close in, beats keeper standing on 6 yard line, skelps bar and lands just behind line then bounces out.
Wheels away, notices ref mccurry Mike hasn’t given it, head butts said ref, screams ‘f#*k the h#*ns’ and removes his strip exposing his Big Jock tattoo.
Ok, I made the last bit up :)
AC Milan .
3 astonishing misses by Balotelli last night whilst playing for Italy [ each one a contender for the Miss of the Year award ]. He was truly dire in the first half but much better in the second . Interesting player —– he veers between the very poor and the very good . He scored Italy’s winner [ a penalty ]. He has now scored 20 penalties in a row.
Shocking goalkeeping from Cech at Italy’s equalizer.
TTT..
wasn’t so long ago that they applied the stop work rule for a few hours during the heat of the day (40 degrees and upwards) for workers constructing the skyscrapers…
you can’t clean rust!
09:56 on 11 September, 2013
big nan @ 09:47
I bet your complaint took a lot longer than the 400 sevconians one. If it did, how did the sevconians complaint get to the BBC trust so quickly. It normally goes through weeks of “editorial” investigation. Fast tracked?
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You bet it did. My complaints against Nevin and others took an age, but then maybe they didn’t want to look at it.
In the Nevin case they lumped them all together to make a sort of generic complaint that in effect meant my complaint contained things that I didn’t complian about and omitted things that I did complain about.
Then of course that became a complaint.
The old boys network is alive and well at the BBC, north and south of the border.
Kjam
As Geordie described it but, just for clarification, ball was about a foot over the line. Would have been very difficult for ref to be sure it was over….. it was a well struck, powerful shot….and the linesman/assistant would need to have been level with the goal line.
JJ
Kjam,
Oh it was left footed annaw
At ticket office,nice and quiet just now if anyone still to pop along
Geordie Munro, cheers for that!
Geordie Munro…
wot!!!.. you mean he hasn’t got a big jock tatoo yet…sacirlege!!
… need a spell checker.
Desertbhoy,
Of course he hasn’t. He’s too Young
Its a Larsson one;p
..slow work day in the hot desert today; waiting for flight back to a different hot and humid desert ramorra.
… needs an education then.
…….morning………
Just read back, still delighted for Scotland. good performance and great result..
( I think we’ll go on to win it……………………)
:)
…………in other news, Tims please beware of bushy tails who speak with fork-ed tongue
Starry Plough
You are in my thoughts on a difficult day for you and your family.
Starry, sympathies for you and yours.
hun skelper
08:39 on 11 September, 2013
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 ?
*****
As that was the section where the offence was committed.
Cross the line, pay the fine.
Sounds logical to me.
Starry Plough
thoughts with you and yours
G.C.T
positive vibrations
Butsy Bhoy
a massive thank you
Hail Hail c.q.n and the celtic family