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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Afternoon all,
Loved reading Steins quotes, must say not only was he a great manager, but he was up there with Plato and Aristotle when it came to philosophy.Thanks Leftclick.
BMCUW,
Ill to you what bhoy, there no chance of the pubs in Swindon going bust as long as your down there!! :)
lilys
charliebhoy 12.54.brill photo.
is that a seagull top left or maybe MICK67’S SPIRIT?????
Spiersy
Stop fudgin’ it matey…………..
Just tell ’em – they died, it’s a deid klub and the tribute act is doing okay…………….
………………………oh, aye an’ stand – up unequivocally for your fair-minded and decent colleague.
And if the knuckledraggers do what they do best, call them out as well, loudly and publicly – repeatedly.
I strolled up to the gate at Ekeren without a ticket and met a mate, wee Moonie, who gave me a spare he had ……don’t think I needed it as the Belgians seemed pretty relaxed about the whole thing!
acgr@hotmail.co.uk – Only three million free Zadok The Priest ringtones left to give away – Get them while stocks last.
13:10 on 10 September, 2013
Big Nan
Masonic judge petition signed.
Acgr
……………………………
Good man and please pass this link on
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/GettingInvolved/Petitions/judgesmasonregister
LILY’S GRANDPA
Haha,got to do my bit for the local economy!
Don’t drink much during the week,as I am on nightshifts. Honest!
Saturdays? Well,that’s different….
BIG NAN
Joooost as well ACGR isnae sending them to the huns.
500 million text messages would take forever!
Oh, wouldn’t it be a joy to see Traynor take to court anyone who dares to say the deid club died. He should be the first to be charged, as he said they had died in the rag he used to “write” for.
The bbc ‘s grovelling apoligy to the gullible only enforses the belief of the sane that sevco hold the same sway with the MSM as the dead club and that is why their copy is no more than bog roll.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS forza Oscar and Mackenzie
14:01 on 10 September, 2013
BIG NAN
Joooost as well ACGR isnae sending them to the huns.
500 million text messages would take forever!
……………………………………………………………………………
Yes but that was on the Charles Green calculator, Desmond White had one similar but in reverse, he used it on crowd stats at Parkhead!
Gallowgate mad squad
So the best team performance was a team beating Celtic 3-0 at Parkhead and the best individual performance that you’ve witnessed came from a Falkirk player???
Strange post mate.
Hi folks again,
Not often I get a chance to read but today has been one of those green letter days.
Tales of Ekeren have brought back some great memories, reminiscenses of Neuchatel Xamax less great, in fact take Artmedia and multiply it by 10!! But of course today belongs to The Big Man.
Some time ago on a blog somewhere (my memory isn’t what it was) I wrote a tale that touched on The Man and his impact on Celtic, the world and the magic he inherited from the land of the Gods.
I know that some aren’t interested in ‘longer’ posts so I won’t screw up the board by posting it here, but if you are interested and have 5 spare minutes to read a wee story with a spine of truth the you can read it at this link…..
http://tinyurl.com/q9rpxp8
Hail Hail
Estadio
bankiebhoy1
When there is silence on the giongs on over at the “hate Factory” from the MSM, you can be sure there is skullduggery going on.
PC
spot on
As always it’s a threat and will come to nowt as even the most sevco friendy judge would want that gig on record
BIG NAN
Loada nonsense.
We just had a lot of priests,and maybe Pools Agents in attendance.
I still reckon he kicked the bucket before he could pass on the details of our account in The Cayman Islands.
Some more pics of Jock
http://www.celticminded.com/forums/showthread.php?t=860418
Till later all
HOOPY BIRTHDAY OSCAR KNOX !!!!
RIP BIG JOCK
Gold Coast Tom hope good news comes your way soon fella
Petition signed.
HH
Gerry
He was a bit crabbit. I went through to Hope St? offices where tickets were on sail and he came in to open up like a man who had found a tanner and lost a tenner!
Bark was worse than bite though and he duly obliged with tickets.
Estadio
Thank you
AGAIN!!!!!!!!!
You talk in pictures and that is meant as a compliment of the highest order. :))
sail = sale
Summa,
mean to say, pass on my best wishes to GCT!
Hope he recovers well and the results are good!
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
One of my fav JS quotes
TV Presenter : ‘Scott Symon, Rangers manager, what do you think the score will be in the Old Firm match’
Symon : I think 2-0 to Rangers
TV Presenter : ‘And you Mr Stein what will the Old Firm score be?’
Big Jock : ‘Only a fool would try to predict the score in an Old Firm game’
HH
estadio.there is only one person i would like to buy a drink for before you………………..
Here’s a wee test for you to take to see what generation you belong to:
The Generation Game
Me? – the El D generation.
lct
Excellent photo`s. I have just made the Ben Lomond one my Screensaver.
JJ
PS What if we all got ACGR`s Zadoc ring tone and asked our non-attending mates to `phone us on the 67th minute of a normal game ( or a Cup game against Sevco!). I wonder what 40,000 + Zadocs would sound like?? 0:-)
ESTADIO
That was marvellous the first time I read it.
It’s still marvellous.
Thanks,bud.
You feeling up to joining us on a dayoooot on 28/9?
BMCUWP,
Thanks big man.
Couple of wee tests before that date which will decide for me. Let me know the details.
mstewart@ymail.com
Hail Hail
Estadio
hamiltontim is praying for oscar
14:06 on 10 September, 2013
Gallowgate mad squad
So the best team performance was a team beating Celtic 3-0 at Parkhead and the best individual performance that you’ve witnessed came from a Falkirk player???
Strange post mate.
You think? Jock Stein held McLean in ultra high regard, and appointed him his assistant. It’s hard to believe, but Utd then were probably (imo) one of the top ten sides in Europe. I think they’d win the spl now with Sturrock, Milne, Narey etc. I think you may not have seen them live- for a team with 6500 attendances they were incredible.
Best display on tv? Celtic v inter 67. As for Crunchier- hey you say Messi or Ronaldo, I’ll stick with the Falkirk boy. I’m sure your hundar was bleeping, but I’m not a hun btw, though I am a socialist. Fidel Castro loving, atheist SNP supporting lapsed catholic. HH to you anyway!
ESTADIO
Mail sent,probably in “junk” wi a heading DAYOOOOT!
Hope you can make it,bud.
GALLOWGATE MAD SQUAD
Ah,ye wur daein’ fine till you mentioned the SNP!
Welcome aboard,mate…..
gallowgate mad squad
14:34 on 10 September, 2013
Hail Hail brother, that’s good enough for me, but get back to mass…!
HH
Jungle Jim
at 12.36
Pal…jist perused yer Celtic Player Ratings…
Why no.. Mention of.. Joe Ledley?
Hmmmmmmmmmm???
He is a Guy , of Whom Ah wullnae be satisfied, until Ah run Him oota Toon!
Dying tae know yer views oan this Guy.
Ah agree oan the Bulk o’ yer Celtic Player Ratings..
Exceptions..
Broonie, fur Instance…
Ah Shrink at yer Proposal that He is.. CELTIC’S Maist Important Player!
Like Ah said , afore, and even Afore, THAT..
Broonie, is a Hasher.. Sometimes, A Basher.. But , he Fails tae Ring Ma Bell.
Big Time!
Broonie,his Improved,no Question.. but.. He Started frum such a Low Position in the
” Fitba’.. How she it Played” Skill Scale..
Broonie ,in Ma opinion.. wid Mak a Guid Addition tae a Scottish Second Division Ootfit.
which… as ye well understaun… is No Criterion!
He is way oota his Depths whilst Playing, as oor Captaiin.. against European Opposition.. And…
Furthermore.. He comes off as An embarrassment.. at Times,tae.
And it Shows… because, of His Flashes of Petulance and Childish Antics.
And Yer Rating of Jamsies Bhoy..Is Way, Way aff.. as weel..
In Ma Opinion.
Jamesie , is oor Number wan Attacking Threat.. When he is Fit.
Sure,the Kid ,his Hid a Loata Fitness Problems,lately..
But.. those Problems are
Wit is called in the Trade ..as..
TRANSITORY!
Ah am confident…He wull Get his Fitness going,as of Yore.. and
He wull once again… Light up oor Faltering and Spluttering Attack.. like a Davy Lamp in a Coal Mine!
and..
Forster..is a Great Goalie..one of the Best that Ah hiv seen, at Celtic.
Ah must admit.. Ah hiv no seen a loat.
But..In Ma opinion ,he is a wee Bit Bettah than Boruc wiz..
Well.. That aboot Covers.. Ma differences in Opinion, with Yer Ain..
Regarding yer Celtic Player Ratings.
Nice Chatting
Kojo
Still..Laughin’
BMCUWP
Got it. Thanks!
Will be in touch and will do utmost to at least join in for part of the evening.
Hail Hail
Estadio
gallowgate mad squad
14:34 on 10 September, 2013
Oh aye, but no the SNP bit… but everyone to their own… still get back to mass..
HH
All Celtic fans against the Bill…
HH
A simple task for the BBC to help clarify all this ‘confusion’.
Get your legal department to research and publish the legal definition of Incorporation from a range of number of sources, published prior to 2012.
How many times do they refer to “Holding Company” ?
ESTADIO
Good man!