Inter have hit a bit of form recently but comments coming out of Milan indicate their visit to Celtic Park is viewed with some trepidation. The stadium’s Champions League reputation remains fresh in the memory, even if the team has been transformed since the last major victory over a truly top team two years ago.
A number of those who will play for Celtic on Thursday will have only seen those great European nights on television. Playing in front of 60,000 Celtic fans will be a new experience. Transforming this support into an energising force is our job. Inter’s first objective will be to frustrate and quieten the crowd. My hunch is that this will be difficult.
We have the line-up confirmed for the CQN11 St Patrick’s Dinner, which is at the Kerrydale Suite on Friday 13 March. Topping the bill for the Q&A is Packy Bonnar, Jock Stein’s last signing, who made his debut on St Patrick’s Day 1979.
Packy’s Celtic and Ireland team-mate, Tommy Coyne, will also be taking part. Tommy had an incredible career and speaks intelligently on football, and life in general. We’re also delighted to have Joe Miller. Joe played in the same Celtic team as Packy and Tommy. Part of our historic Centenary Team, he also scored that unforgettable Scottish Cup Final winner. More recently Joe formed the Association of Former Celtic Players.
To mark the 50th anniversary of Jock Stein’s first game as Celtic manager, which takes place that week, we also have Jock’s personal friend and biographer, Archie Macpherson will speak about the great man. If you’ve ever needed inspiration…..
I’m also delighted to confirm we have Celtic’s First Lady of Song, Patricia Ferns, who is making the journey over from Ireland for our night.
Let me know if you still need a ticket, celticquicknews@gmail.com
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petec
00:24 on 17 February, 2015
Last highlight before bed.
The Mad Somalian Taxi driver joining in with me, and Delaneys D, with the Celtic songs as we were approaching the Waterfront for the Floyd concert.
If any of his Sons are good enough, there isnae any doubt what Club they will play for. :)
I need a week to digest what happened over the last 70 hours or so, Really crazy.
God Bless ever CQNer.
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Pmsl laughing at that wan dude.
God bless pal, St Jude will watch ye.What a saint..Trust me.
No problem Pete
Pity we couldn’t have conversed a bit more but as you know DD and I were more often in the beer garden having smoke:-)
Macan
Away to check. Cannae thank you and your good lady enough. Was lookin out for you all night. My first stop in Belfast every time now, is St. Matthew’s. Fine wee club you have.
God bless you all.
The fact that the dirty Orange, Masonic institution that is The Rangers still survive in some shape or form disgusts me..
I just know ye and Pete were in good hands wae macanbheatha.
Don’t know him, but he knows ma pals.
Many of them..incarcerated and all fecken legends
Legends you ask..
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq-KRflc1fc
DD
Again no problem cara
I was thinking afterwards that the club may have lacked some atmosphere but after following all your shenanigans throughout the weekend I’m sure a quiet start was what you needed.
If you got the email you’ll see that it explains why I was unable to join you all that night
There’s a good chance I’ll be over on Thursday ( an early birthday present from the wife and kids) hope to catch up with you then if it works out.
Belfast men..
Salt of the earth..oh and the women too.
Especially that stunner who works in Ladbrokes in Castle St..
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vN_5C2RdCsM
For all my great friends jailed unjustly in their fight for freedom and indeed some who post on here.
They know who they are and God bless them
Macan
Your wee place was exactly the start the 4 of us needed. Your good name was mentioned often over the weekend by all of us. Would love to buy you a drink in Glasgow on Thursday.
HH
Time for me to put the head down.
I look forward to a good drink in Clydebank, Belfast and Dublin before the year is out.
Yeah, time I was back in Dublin.
The Flowing Tide..
All above if God spares me.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vdxLxnhGnvo
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I’m sure the person who Posted this on FB won’t mind me Sharing it on CQN..
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**UPDATE. I have heard Ian possibly moved to Manchester around 2003 after leaving Blantyre. He used to drink in the Parkville pub as he lived behind it (Cameron Way possibly).** BELLSHILL BORN AND BRED? PLEASE HELP…looking to contact my half brother who I lost contact with many years ago. I think he may be away from Bellshill now but he was brought up there. His name is Ian Richardson and he had a younger sister Fiona. I think he will be in his early 50s possibly. He was a taxi driver for the years I knew him. He had a daughter Emma with his 1st wife but I’m sure he remarried many years ago now and had more children. I know he lived in Blantyre for a few years and moved away again around 2003 but not sure where to. I think he went to Bellshill Academy. Any info, please pm me. Would really like to be back in contact or get to know my nieces/nephews. Thank you in advance for any info x.
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If anyone could help drop me a mail and l can forward the Girls details..
bhoysofoz@gmail.com
TIA
001
Is the blog broke
Anyway
http://youtu.be/7-nOoMkdcqc
HH
Midfield Maestro –
Just noticed your sad news. Please accept my condolences.
Thoughts and prayers with you and your family today.
Midfield maestro
Very sorry to hear your sad news.
Thoughts and prayers to you and the family.
Take care
Ynwa
: http://youtu.be/GZS2NVJW_84
Wake up .. its another good day everyone. Were all tims.
3 ronnie roars in the morning will wake ye up
Herald Scotland
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Auditors raise new ‘going concern’ questions over Rangers’ engine room company
Published on 17 February 2015
Martin Williams
AUDITORS have sounded a new warning over whether Rangers’ operating company can continue as a going concern.
Deloitte formed the opinion after considering the future financial position, including the need to raise more funds if the Championship club are not promoted this season.
It also raised a fresh warning over the “uncertain outcome” of former Ibrox kingpin Craig Whyte’s legal battle over ownership, after considering the “adequacy” of director disclosures over the case.
Details of the concerns come in newly published accounts for the year ending June, 2014 which showed that The Rangers Football Club Ltd (TRFCL), recorded a loss of £8.1 million – a 54per cent drop on the previous year (£17.6 million).
Whyte, the venture capitalist, who bought Sir David Murray’s majority shareholding in Rangers in May 2011 had always insisted he was the main driver behind Sevco 5088.
The company was identified by administrators in May 2012 as being the newco that was “contractually obliged” to purchase the assets and business of operating company RFC 2012 plc out of administration.
Whyte and his associate, Aiden Earley, have argued that former chief executive Charles Green was working alongside them and that they, consequently, are the rightful owners.
Rangers directors have consistently insisted the claims are of no merit.
Auditors took into account the need for more funding and the directors assumptions in reaching the belief that the company had the resources to continue to operate indefinitely.
Directors of TRFCL, the engine room Rangers subsidiary, in making its ‘going concern’ assumption said forecasts were “critically dependent on the football performance for the rest of the current season” and that the team were promoted to the top flight club at the end of this season.
Rangers dropped to third in the Championship table after a 2-0 defeat at Ibrox to second placed Hibs on Friday and now trail leaders Hearts by 22 points. The leading side get automatic promotion leaving the second, third and fourth placed teams to fight it out with the Scottish Premiership’s second bottom team for the right to be in the top flight.
The accounts show that TRFCL owes parent company Rangers International Football Club Plc (RIFC) £15.667 million which are repayable on demand, but the controlling holding company had no intention to claim the money back “in the foreseeable future”.
Operating costs dropped from £35.304 million in 2012/13 to £25.297 million, staff costs went down from £17.616 million to £13.966 million and the wages to turnover ratio for the year dropped from 44per cent to 38per cent.
The annual report signed off by chairman David Somers says there would be “significant operating profit impact” next year if Rangers were not promoted and indicated the timing of related cashflows would require the need for further funding “towards the end of the period through to the end of January 2016”.
Last month Rangers secured a new refinanced short-term £10 million loan from Sports Direct to prevent the business suffering an insolvency.
The board’s ‘going concern’ statement also included a “key assumption” relating to a rise in season ticket numbers and prices this financial year to reflect an expected return to the Scottish Premiership.
Accounts show the number of season ticket sales dropped from 38,228, to 36,039, before the start of this season. But it is known that Ibrox attendances this campaign have slumped to as low as 11,190 in the wake of growing unrest over the club’s financial dealings.
Auditors Deloitte said the conditions around the need for further funding and other factors including the directors’ own going concern statement indicated “the existence of a material uncertainty which may cast significant doubt over the company’s ability to continue as a going concern and therefore that the company may be unable to realise its assets and discharge its liabilities in the normal course of business”.
It also said that while the company were satisfied after a thorough investigation that Whyte’s claims have no legal merit.
Mr Green has denied that Whyte or Mr Earley were involved in Sevco 5088.
Rangers say Mr Green was the sole director and he had resigned to be the founder director of Sevco Scotland Ltd, the company that took over the assets of the club. It became TRFCL.
Mr Somers while acknowledging there were going concern worries, said that directors “believe that there is a reasonable expectation that the company and its parent company Rangers International Football Club plc will have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future”.
Meanwhile, it has been reported that the club has found a new venue in London for its extraordinary general meeting on March 4, after the original hotel pulled out.
christy moore the boy from tamlaghtduff (the ballad of francis hughes): http://youtu.be/JkmfvDNztVc
A favourite of mine
Terry O’Neill – Down by the glenside: http://youtu.be/h5gZGF6EFUk
Best version of this great ballad
The belfast legend cruncher
My Carroll Bawn: http://youtu.be/Xa_GCB6YKXw
Another great ballad from the big man
Cruncher O’Neill – Che Guevara’s on the Road Again: http://youtu.be/ggLOjDUkILI
Great tune here..dont think its been recorded yet.
James Forrest,
Woke up early this morning and decided to get the old iPad out……I honestly wish I hadn’t ……the vast majority of your articles in On Fields of Green are thought-provoking and interesting ……you’re latest contribution has me wondering what you were drinking with your whacky backy when you were penning it…..
You really do need closely review your contention that free speech means anyone can say anything they like with impunity…….that philosophy is exactly what is wrong with society today, …. also, the contradictions in your contentions are stark and, quite frankly, ridiculous….
One example will suffice to kick your review off …….. racial abuse……in essence, you are saying that one human being can say what they like about another human being….ridiculous
On one hand you say “This is a horrible place to live at times, because a small minority insist on keeping it that way.” ….. whilst, on the other hand, you want it to be a more horrible place by allowing any speech to be freely tolerated by society …….to put it mildly, look up the word ‘inappropriate’ FGS mhan
Finally, and to cut it short, we are vilified in this Country (by some) for commemorating the struggle against oppression in the land of our fore-fathers because the oppressor was this Country ……. Simple really, and we just need to live with that uncomfortable fact, I’m afraid
proudbhoy
05:54 on 17 February, 2015
My God, that brought back memories of my father …….. his favourite ……Thank you
Morning Timdom
2 more sleeps till Paradise on Earth.
Had a spare kids’ ticket so the wee Mhan invited a good pal from school. Apparently the kid is beyond excited (and his Dad is green with envy!).
That’s what football’s meant to be about.
HH jamesgang
jamesgang
06:49 on 17 February, 2015
Never mind the kid ……..I’M BEYOND EXCITED ….. cannae get to sleep ….hahahsha
Midfield Maestro – Sorry to read the sad news about your Da.
God rest his soul.
HH.
Right, might as well get up for work ……..
Delighted to hear paradise is packed out for thursday night..hopefully a good result and performance .
Everyone im sure has a mate or work colleague who supports the tic but doesnt go to many games anymore.
keep at them and try drag them along to some games. We badly need to do something to get those fans going again.
standing area will help but so will other things.
everyone has a part to play.. not just the board.
Good morning friends from a damp, grey and pretty cold (but not freezing) East Kilbride.
Just 2 more sleeps.
Proudbhoy
Would that it was only about folk not bothering to attend ..
Surreal it was standing in the town centre at two in the morning, having a pint and a toke along with petec, ACGR and DD.
DD started to sing the Ronny Deila song – woooooh Rrrrrrrrony Delia, in that Scottish style, rolling the r from the start lol.
Just thought – Jesus Christ this is the life, this is incredible.
Such a chanter that DD is.
Remarkable.
HH.
16 roads
You all seemed to have a great time
Sorry I couldnae make it ..I had a fairly complicated matter which was supposed to start yesterday … A weekend on the madness wouldn’t have been appropriate preparation …
Bloody thing was adjourned until March …last Tuesday ….couldn’t make arrangements in limited time given ..typical
See you when you make it across next time
HH
Midfield Maestro
So sorry for the sad, sad loss of your father ….may he rest in God’s peace
Good morning CQN
What happens when you lie and cheat in sport
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/31495246
Lets hope we see an atmosphere on Thursday close to what we seen a couple of years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plhcTycP9QE
Pfayr – You would have been in your element mo chara. Yourself and all the rest of the squad who couldn’t be there were badly missed.
There’s always the next time sure anyway.
Do you fancy to defeat the Italians mate?
I’m thinking of having a good wee bet on a Celtic victory.
HH.
Testing from phone
16 roads
We’re playing as well as I’ve seen any CFC team play for some time
How far that translates into having a chance against Inter …who knows …
I’m an eternal pessimist …..never like getting carried away
Looking forward to the game much more than I was a month ago
Jobo
Loud n clear youngster!
HH jamesgang
Good morning CQNers,
There has been a noticeable deterioration in the discipline with regards fouls conceded under Ronny Deila.
For example, since the new year we’ve conceded 92 fouls , averaging 15.3 a game, to put that in context the opposition conceded 51 fouls (rangers accounted for 21 of that total), an average of 8.5 per game.
In past seasons we could have complained about honest mistakes to account for this discrepancy, but not this season.
European referees, especially those from southern European are less tolerant of the more robust Scottish game so I do hope Ronny Deila is highlighting the need for a real disciplined display on Thursday.