Highland trips shadow final Champions League round

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This time next week Celtic will have played two competitive games, both at home, and we will have a chance to properly assess preseason preparations.  Even if victories are achieved against HJK Helsinki and Aberdeen the challenges for the remainder of the month, with at least four and possibly five games away from Celtic Park, with the possibility of only one home game, in the final Champions League qualifying round, will ensure Celtic are tested to their limit.

Two trips to the Highlands ahead of the Champions League qualifiers would be an unwelcome distraction.  Maybe an occasion for the youth and fringe players.

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  1. Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo on

    Londoncalling

     

     

    Straw sacks with upside down CQN badges.

     

     

    HH

  2. !!Bada Bing!! on

    LondonCalling -Same strip,same badge,same songs mate.A poster earlier said the 5 fag burns were not on the jersey,couldn’t tell with BBC Alba’s cameras tbh.

  3. Gene's a Bhoys name on

    Patrick27

     

     

    The only place Boyd was in front of Larsson was alphabetically

  4. LondonCalling on

    Aw No ..

     

    surely they wouldn’t, dare to wear the same badge, plastic stars and all??

  5. Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo on

    Londoncalling

     

     

    No 5 stars

     

     

    No lettering

     

     

    Minimum cost jerseys provided by Tennents

     

     

    HH

  6. I take it the MSM will forensically dissect ‘Hughie’s’ bigotry outburst………..?.

     

    ….shameful playing to the gargoyle gallery…………..or Broomloan stand as it’s infamously known……………

  7. Marrakesh Express on

    The swimming’s fantastic.

     

    Just heard Lineker getting dug up by Ian Thorpe for a snide remark.

     

     

    hh

  8. Lads you’re so wrong, Boyd is far superior to Larsson, as the Daily Ranger told us.

     

     

    Hunbelievable

  9. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    LondonCalling on 29 July, 2012 at 20:43 said:

     

     

    Oh aye …… They don’t do shame, and are still in denial ……HMRC will have ‘clocked’ it……..

  10. Hoop hoop Hooray on

    We say sevco they say The Rangers. As things stand that word ‘The’ has just put them to the bottom of division 3

  11. What was witnessed today was a perfect picture of the way the whole world is run these days ; it played out on a small team’s ground in the north of Scotland.

     

    Absolutely shameless gloating by a horde of unrepentant greedy individuals as they lord it over some decent hardworking taxpayers. They were headed up by an avaricious (probably psychopathic) asset stripper, using a nasty wee bawfaced violent bigot as his frontman advising a gang of thugs how best to get the maximum out of limited intellectual resources.

     

    And the msm laud this and expect us to buy this patently obvious guff……just like they did with weapons of mass destruction.

     

    Well……just how long do we have to tolerate this kind of rubbish before the wheels of justice grind this kind of excrescence into dust?

  12. Marrakesh Express on

    Btw, how come Sevco didnt wear the 5 fag burns and Jimmy the bigot Bell did, and McDowell?

     

     

    hh

  13. Sixteen roads to Golgotha on

    Apologies if already posted.

     

     

    From the Daily Sevco:

     

     

    SPL clubs enjoying season ticket boom following summer of doom and gloom

     

     

    SCOTLAND’S top football clubs have been given a massive cash bonus ahead of the new season – as fans back calls to boost attendances.

     

     

    Most clubs in the SPL say season ticket sales are up on this time last year – despite Rangers dropping out of the top flight.

     

     

    The money generated is seen as vital to clubs who will miss out on cash generated at the gate by the demoted Ibrox club’s huge fanbase.

     

     

    Hibs have outsold last season’s total of books, with a further last-minute rush expected this week. The Edinburgh side’s total was more than 7100 last night.

     

     

    Aberdeen and Dundee United have installed a season ticket counter so fans can keep track of how many the club have sold.

     

     

    And bosses at Dundee United, whose current total sits at more than 4400, have told supporters that getting the tickets is the best way to ensure the club survives the financial storm.

     

     

    A club spokesman said: “The response from fans has been very good over the last few weeks. We have surpassed last season’s total. This will be a difficult season financially and there is no better way for the fans to help the club than buying season tickets.”

     

     

    Aberdeen’s counter is sitting at more than 6304, which officials say is slightly more than last year, with still some time to go before the big kick-off.

     

     

    The club to see the biggest increase are Ross County, who are in the SPL for the first time this season. But while the Staggies won’t provide exact numbers on their season ticket sales, general manager Ranald Gilbert insists the outlook is good.

     

     

    He said: “We have more than doubled our sales compared to last year.

     

     

    “Obviously, we are in a slightly different position from other teams because this is the first time in our history that we have been part of the SPL. But it is looking positive and we are very happy.”

     

     

    Kilmarnock chairman Michael Johnston said: “At present sales are around 2500, showing a significant rise over the corresponding period last year.

     

     

    This is hugely encouraging and if we can push that figure up to more than 3800 we’ll exceed the highest number of season tickets sold in any of the last five years.”

     

     

    Stuart Hutton, general manager at St Johnstone, wouldn’t reveal exact figures either but said sales were “ticking away nicely since the Rangers thing”.

     

     

    Motherwell spokesman Alan Burrows said: “The number of season tickets sold changes every day, but we are sitting just shy of 4000.

     

     

    “Last year our total was 4091 and that included half-season sales as well, so judging by that we are definitely up. We’re targeting 5000.”

     

     

    Dundee’s ticket office boss Neil Cosgrove added: “Season ticket sales are very healthy and outstripping last year’s numbers.

     

     

    “We hope we can sell even more between now and the start of the season.”

     

     

    Hearts sold 10,000 season tickets last year and their current figure is 8300.

     

     

    Laura Grant, ticket manager at Inverness Caledonian Thistle, admitted the club’s sales were 20 per cent down on last year.

     

     

    She said: “As the season is getting closer, we have seen a lot more activity and we are hopeful we can make a significant dent in that 20 per cent. It’s definitely picking up.”

     

     

    St Mirren say they are 60 short of last seasons’s total but expect it to be surpassed in the coming days.

     

     

    Last week, Celtic chief executive Peter Lawell said fans had bought tickets in huge numbers but urged more to invest in a book for the season ahead.

     

     

    The first SPL season without Rangers kicks off next Saturday. Celtic will take on Aberdeen, Hearts face St Johnstone and Kilmarnock play new boys Dundee. Ross County meet Motherwell and St Mirren go up against Inverness.

     

     

    The following day, Dundee United play Hibs.

  14. Poor Chris he’s trying his best to convince everyone it’s still the same team lol.

     

     

    @ChrisGraham76: If BBC Scotland continue to refer to us using various incorrect club names we should ban them from Ibrox until they sort themselves out.

     

     

    @ChrisGraham76: @JaneLewisSport @rangersfctrust I don’t expect to turn on BBC and be met with people taking fly kicks at Rangers by making up names for club

     

     

    @ChrisGraham76: @JaneLewisSport @rangersfctrust Jane, as national broadcaster BBC should be able to raise themselves above tabloid reporting. We are Rangers

  15. tommytwiststommyturns on

    Haven’t read back and it’s probably been said already, but it wouldn’t be a disaster if we weren’t top of the SPL for quite a number of months. Not having to worry about the pressure of the manky mob being top is the perfect environment for introducing our ‘yoots’!

     

     

    T4

  16. LondonCalling on

    suppose a masons compass over a rampant goat,wearing brogues would be hard to knock up in a couple of days..

  17. Does anyone remember Jane Lewis called him Mervin Selik and then the following day she changed it to Chelik ?

     

     

    I wonder who she was under orders from ?

     

     

    No doubt SSB will try and wind the Celtic fans up by saying its the same club.

  18. @chrisgraham

     

     

    S E V C O

     

     

    Say it loud say it proud, say it with dignity wee man

     

     

    kdc

  19. Chris Graham …..Hun chuckle monkey …rangers are dead

     

     

    Newco is what you are until you go into admin again

  20. I see The Huddleboard has managed to pick up evidence that, as well as the vile songs re-appearing, they had a banner on display at the hedge end reading “peado (sic) free in div. 3”.

     

     

    Apparently we are sexually excited by small green vegetables.

  21. Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo on

    1.1

     

     

    Cant put teams away has Pearces hallmarks all over it. The mans an ass kisser

     

     

    HH

  22. The Token Tim on

    BJMac,

     

     

    If you are about, sent you an email earlier.

     

    Can you reply asap please mate.

     

     

    HAIL! HAIL!

     

    Token

  23. !!Bada Bing!! on

    England GB 1-1 v UAE,Spain at full tilt 0-1 v Honduras Sky 461,good game.

     

    bruceforsythcsc

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