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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HH my man
Gallowgate mad squad
Easy there tiger :-)
There was no hidden meaning in my address to you but possibly you protesteth too much :-)
I do remember the Utd team of which you speak and they were indeed an outstanding side. I also thought that McCallister was a smashing wee player.
I just don’t know any Celtic supporters (that I personally have met!) who would appraise them or him quite so highly. However, this is a blog and it’s all about opinions.
Kojo
We didn`t mention Joe Ledley ( we were playing golf at the time and were on opposite teams!) but my own opinion of Joe is extremely high.
The reason for the words “most important player” for Broonie were chosen deliberately.
ie as opposed to ” best” or ” most talented”. The other players respond to Scott Brown. They look to and for him in tight spots and he delivers. He is a much improved player and, from my seat in 106, his influence on the other players (opposition as well ) is palpable..
As regards Jamesie Boy. Our assessment was based on the fact that we both had high expectations of this young man. When he finds space, he can cause havoc and I certainly haven`t given up on him. Currently, though, he is only shining intermittently.
We will just have to differ re Forster but I certainly hope you are correct.
Keep on Laughing 0:-)
JJ
Watched world war z last night. It seems like zombies the world over are the same. They just don’t realize that they are deed,deed, deed.
petitoon signed
petition
gallowgate mad squad
14:34 on
10 September, 2013
Well said man!
We may not always agree about everything but at least we have the ability to put our views out there.
Hail! Hail!
better watch with big jabba on the warpath…but anyway
Rangers are deid…oops
HH
Oh btw.
Petition signed
Masonic Judge Petition signed
HH
John , ” You are immortal now”!
Jock, if there were two players, one Catholic and one Protestant. Who would you sign?”
“The Protestant”
“Why?”
“Because I know that Rangers would never sign the Catholic”
HH Jock Stein,
Pogmathonyahun
Liked that, I am El D generation, but never touched the stuff. That was for the real bams :-)
Jungle Jim
Congratulations.. Pal!
Ye stuck tae yer Guns.. and ye Wiznae ..
Even a Wee Tate.. Diverted fae yer Ain previously Expressed Opinions..
regarding, They Celtic Players,which Are Under discussion.
By my..
Barrage o’ Bumph…and Hyperbole!
Yer Right of course.. in yer Thinking.
Ah Must Concede.. the Field .. and Retreat in Confusion and Disarray!
Kojo
Still, Laughin’
These claims by the sevco mob are silly…I mean, I claim to be the 13th reincarnation of the Dali Lama….but its no really true is it.
Rangers are deid…nae luck :)
HH
Is it right that Jim Spence has asked to take voluntary redundancy all because of a dead club? Sickening if true!
oldco…deidco…sevco…bustco :)
HH
the green man
15:05 on 10 September, 2013
“nae luck” ……. Absolutely brilliant ………!!!!!!!
Big Mike
Jim Spence is one of the best reporters on the Scottish game at the moment. He would be a loss. Doesn’t too seriously either. Enjoy listening to him on the radio.
Very sad if that is indeed true.
LB
phils latest http://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/jim-spence-and-the-bbcs-lack-of-support-for-him/
Well so much for Auntie growing a set.
HH
Re Tom McLaughlin/GCT
For those asking. He is doing fine, had his prostate removed yesterday, hopes they have got all the cancer & he can start getting treatment. Sitting up in hospital, a bit tender! Got flowers from his work today.
He hopes to be on CQN tomorrow.
Up until MONs celtic, i would have said the best scottish side IMO was aberdeen early 80s. Mcghee and archibald up front with WGS and ian scanlon providing the ammunition. Their defence wisnae bad either. Sad to say i was born (1967) too late to have seen the lions
greenyin
Big Mike
If that is true, this bigoted little country will be the laughing stock of Europe. Lose your job for telling truth! Very sad.
Estadio
If you are still around, welcome back – not had the pleasure of your company for quite some time on here.
Btw, have you made it to Crossraguel Abbey yet?
HH!!
what they have done to jim spence is sickening…ive seen it all now
the scoddish establishment show their true colours….bent as bananas
where will it all end…..the cardigan and sleekit at the scoddish parliament…I would not be surprised.
Shocking
HH
Hamiltontim and others- how about you guys? Best team display and individual performance witnessed live, celtic or otherwise?
From the last thread
LiviBhoy, thanks for a perfect summation the huns and their songs! I have bookmarked so I have a handy guide!
My first ever Celtic game was the home tie against Ekeren – I had grown up in England and moved to Scotland in 1989, my brother took me on the Bathgate bus, we won 2 nil and scored a penalty and then in our next two home games against Airdrie and Hearts also got penalties and won both of those games 3-1. So my first 3 games saw us get penalties in every game which frankly must be some kind of record!! (I’m also sure we scored all 3 which must also be a record!)
First away game was a 5-0 win at St Mirren, sure it was 0-0 at half time and I won the sweep on the bus as I had ref half time
First European away trip was the following season, my 14th birthday present was a trip to Cologne with my Dad, we lived in Livingston but there was spaces advertised in the Celtic View on the Port Glasgow bus! Was some trip, My dad and I were novices when it came to these kind of trips and had taken food etc. but not any drink, within half an hour of setting off guys were offering my dad vodka and Irn bru and me Irn Bru with big winks as it was full of vodka!
Ferry was good fun as there was about 25 jambos on the other side of the lounge on there way to a game in the Czech Republic I think and the songs were flying over the heads of all the English people who were just getting the ferry to France!
All in all a great trip and greatly enjoyed apart from the result but we corrected that in the second leg and JC’s goal near the end is one of my special memories from the early ’90’s along with his curler against the deid yins when we beat them 2-1 to end their long unbeaten league record. Paton got the other and Hately got a late consolation to make us sweat. (I also found 6 quid at my feet that day to round things off nicely)
I enjoyed Sunday, felt the booing was fairly light hearted and not too serious and all in all it was a great day.
BBC a bloody disgrace, why is everyone so frightened of upsetting sevco? Yea I know, same old effing story, stinks!!
Big Mike
If thats true, the BBC, and other jounos,should hang their collective headsfor not in shame for not backing him to the hilt.
lilys
ps.BMCUW,
Theres helping the local economy, and theres persuing a Freeman of Swindon award.:)
gallowgate mad squad
Best team display – 0-5 Love St, 1986 has to be up there. 3rd goal incredible even if it was finished by you know who.
HH
Best individual performance, Jinky against Red Star, sheer brilliance.
gallowgate mad squad
Two stand out for me:
1969 SC Final – Celtic 4-0 Huns.
1970 EC Semi-final at Hampdump – Celtic 2- 1 Leeds – Bobby Murdoch masterclass.
There have been MANY others – but these two stand head and shoulders above the rest: imo, of course.
HH!!
I reproduce a reply to Speirs Herald article today from a Celt in Australia. Made me laugh:-
“Company died, club didn’t” is the biggest load of ballix of this century, tantamount to the emperor’s boaby in full view and everyone saw clothes – Aye right ye are then.
I’ve been in business for 10 years and sensible for the other 48 as of tomorrow, and there is no sensible way anyone can argue anything other than this. The current team (wearing the unsponsored strip they had to pay for off the rack) is a tribute act to the latest greatest cheats of our era.
Rangers died!! Sue me, Mr Traynor.”
re Jim Spence… read on a previous article of Phil’s that he could call on support from NUJ.. would like to think this was true, but probably wouldn’t include many from north of the border.
If Jim Spence does indeed leave the BBC then it highlights how pathetic things are in this country. All sports journalists should be showing solidarity with one of their fellow journalists – all he did was speak the truth. It really is disgusting.
If true about Jim Spence and the lack of support from his employer then the whole Sevco Rangers propaganda machine is bigger than we ever imagined.
In the long run none of this will matter as they are sleepwalking into another collapse(lets see how they spin that one).
Its the principle of it that really riles us at the moment, and shows what we’ve been up against in this country throughout our existence.
Paranoid?
HH
Aye, Danny mcGrain in that 0-5 game was immense-started the third goal i think. Too young for Red Star game
Kevin Webster not guilty