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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I will try and put it into perspective for younger generations of Celtic fans will think that old timers like myself go overboard when reminiscing about Big Jock.
For Celtic fans of the time, the announcement of Jock’s return was our football ‘Kennedy moment’. We can all remember where we were, what we were doing and who we heard good news from.
More importantly, we all knew deep down that happier days were just around the corner.
When Jock arrived in the Spring of 1965, Celtic’s fans had endured seven years in which the only trophies acquired were the Glasgow and Glasgow Charity Cups, and even the winning of these could require correctly guessing the toss of a coin.
The club, players and fans were a joke.
Under Jock, not only did the club experience its truly golden era but also success on an unprecedented scale.
Within weeks the Scottish Cup was won. A mere twenty five months down the line, another five domestic trophies were won and we were Champions of Europe. A title secured coming from behind against a team who when they scored first, usually went on to win.
The only regret for most of was that fathers, brothers and uncles who had all had their lean times as Celtic fans did not live to enjoy the ultimate success.
Jock was human and not perfect. However, he made life much more enjoyable for many thousands of us.
Gordon_J
Excellent as always.
HH!!
Martin Niemoller:
First they came for the communists and I didn’t speak out because I was not a communist
Then they came for the socialists and I didn’t speak out because I was not a socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn’t speak out because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me
Tallybhoy,
Many thanks
Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon 18:34
In Defence Of Jim Spence
Very succinct article, Gordon.
G-J
Spot on – and it looks like Auntie has indeed grown a set….
‘mon the bampots!
Auntie has finally grown a pair?
That would be a first.
HH!!
Didn’t take to long for BT to turn Hun, was only a matter of time and was never in doubt.
Gordon-J
Yes mate!
It seems that the deid club naysayers have finally over-reached themselves; swung a wild hay-maker punch causing them to lose balance -trip over their own feet…finally, stumbling to the big knockout count…
10,9….
Evening friends
C’mon Scotland!
tinhatCSC
How far are they going to be allowed to take this intimidation?
The problem is not so much finding someone in power with the cojones to stand up for truth and justice, its finding one with backbone and principles who’s also not a member of the craft.
Looking as if the BBC has finally grown a back bone…lets see how long it lasts for.
Felt for Jim Spence..tell the truth and that’s how he’s treated.
Good luck to all our players on international duty tonight.
Hail Hail
Where the feck did McLeash get that whistle, Deerie meeeeee
TD67
I beg your pardon.
marrakesh express
your post 11.30 last night was great
Marrakesh Express
spoke with bmcwp regarding the day out at the end of the month, speak to you at the week-end..
I dumped that whistle an flute ( suit) in the Castlemilk charity shop 8 years ago.
BMCUWP @ 18.28, Cheers buddy. Spain was great but a very short trip. Well on the way to organising my trip to the Camp Nou.
BTW anyone looking to go there avoiding expe3nsive direct Barcelona flights, I’m going via Alicante and the round trip cost about £150. TET recommended Vueling and I got Alicante Barca return for 82 euros including taxes.
I’ll be looking at the hotel situation for the hootenanny tomorrow and I’ll keep you posted.
Wee Spence has balls of weapon grade titanium.
Jungle Jim
I agree entirely with your opinion on Fraser Forster. My opinion is that he is much improved since he came to us but he will never be good enough. It was down to a wee bit of good luck rather than the keeper’s skill that we are still in SL. When the ball hit the crossbar he stood static and if that had went in there was no way back. He’s is reasonably good at shot
stopping when the ball is between one foot and six foot off the ground. On the ground, particularly nearside, he is useless. I would take the cash as he would be very easily replaced. After all the deid yins do it successfully. Klos, Woods and the best, Goram. The Holy Goalie is the only World Class keeper we have had since Ronnie Sompson: And we need to get back to that standard if we want to progress in Europe
Typo – not SL but CL
Talking of goalkeepers I thought Shay Given looked the business on Sunday is he still with Villa ? H.H.
Jim Spence tweet
Folks last tweet for a while. Thanks for your overwhelming support and a huge thank you to @paulholleran1 at @NUJofficial….and to many in
Sh^t! Was gonny watch the Scotland game, but Pep and McLeish are in the studio!
Imagine anybody listening to that wee fat fud!
Strachan sais he. Not gonna mark Pandev, Hez hivin a laugh, if he doesn’t, they gonna get ripped up like toilet paper, he does still talk silly talk.
Despite my feeble attempts at humour I don’t think Spencey is any kind of superhero, roundhouse kickin’ journalistic ass…………….the reality is he was just saying something very obvious to anyone not in the thrall of hundom.
Scottish journalism still has fundamental questions to answer.
Matthews and Ledley start for Wales,hate these International breaks,injury watch .
@AgentScotland: When we allow deception to become fact we inadvertently hang guys like Jim Spence out to dry, its time to stop molly coddling
Who will dive first
Hutton or Snakesmith
From deidco media at 18.19 on the Jim Spence thread.
“Some stuff about the NUJ on twitter?”
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Looks like the shit is about to hit the fan on the hun sites.
Damn it!! I wish I could still post there. Now would be a good time to offer my ringtone to the sevconians and leave a wee link so they can play and really enjoy it.
SOAL -4/7 Hutton,5/4 Naismith
Masty
look forward to it. See you in the Granite.
Evening all
Just on way home from work. What exactly has happened with Jim Spence? ( today I mean). Read somebody , somewhere today pointing out that previous comments similar to JS’s have not generated anything like as much attention- smokescreen for more bad ( ie fabulous) news re the team which plays near St Anthony’s juniors to be revealed?
Best team performance- 6-1 Cup Final v Hibs 1972
Best game- 4-2 v the Stinkies on 21/5/79
Best individual performance – Jinky b Leeds 1970
Best Atmosphere: Barca last season or Real in 1980
Best Goal: George Connelly scoring Celtic’s third in the 1969 Cup Final
Best celebration. The ballboy behind the goal after George Connelly’s goal
Jimbo67 supporting Oscar Knox
The Spirit Of Arthur Lee
Ask Ian Black…
;o)
No black arm bands for the Scotland team tonight.
Why am I not surprised?
No I’m Jim Spence
The Spirit Of Arthur Lee
18:39 on
10 September, 2013
I’m Jim Spence
Big Nan
signed by my good lady, & have sent link to son who has a Facebook acc, says he will be only to happy to sign, & put link up on his page.
HH
Club and company were incorporated in 1899.
Incorporation means two or more entities being consolidated in ONE BODY ( from the Latin,Corpus – a body ) so there is only one entity to be liquidated, i.e. no separation is possible.
Am I missing something here? How can that possibly be misinterpreted?
The entity that was rankers died in June 2012 when the CVA failed and liquidation became inevitable.
QED.
Tell all the huns you know.
Hutton wins