Not only are Newco left without an auditor, a Nomad and therefore a market listing, outgoing auditors Deloitte, wrote to the club last month to explain they were resigning due to threatening and intimidating messages received by their staff from anonymous persons during 2013 and 2014 in relation to their work with the club.
The toxicity of that football club is difficult to overstate. Is it any wonder Celtic fans are clear: the ‘Old Firm’ died in 2012? Any attempts to rekindle it will result in contagion for our own club, who maybe smaller going forward without the ‘Old Firm’ dividend, but it will be healthier nonetheless.
I’ll take 40,000 crowds and winning the next 30 titles in a canter, bring it on.
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Kit..
but get confused when some in isolation decline a beer, after all, we’re all Celtic Supporters.
Then You said..
“I was more opining that I’ll go out of my way to catch a fellow Tim for a beer, especially so when you find yourself in a place that doesn’t particularly abound with them.A friendly face in a foreign place is one of life’s wee blessings.”
Sorry You’ve Lost me..
Summa of SimpleTalkCSC
winning captains
Interesting piece re E Lites, not the product, but the comparison between our back room commercial team and the other lot.
A good friend of mine works in the sports industry and does work with Nike, Adidas, New Balsnce as well as dealing directly with many clubs. His favourite deal is his regular trips to Barca to work with their retail guys. Lucky sod.
Anyway, for his sins he is a Rangers man, and despite my pleading stays true to his club. He hates the current shambles and hoped for a complete relaunch of the club from the ground up. A few years ago he was a witness to a Walter of the Cardigan training session a Murray Park and felt embarrassed at what he was watching.. As for his commercial dealings , he has nothing but respect for the team at Celtic. They constantly strive to include other SPL clubs in any projects. The other lot only look after themselves, promise lots and deliver feck all.
Needles to say, he awaits in vain for his own club to begin looking like and acting like a proper football club again.
We WUZ robbed, Toffee Tim. never never a penalty. Tremendous performance puts pride back in Cork Football. You rarely beat Kerry in a replay but there is always a chance to make history.
Cork were robbed
Burgled in fact
Never a penalty
Collum wouldn’t even have given it
Timbhoy3
Sense that a Celtic Bus would just be another focus of hatred n attack
Bad investment.
Rent as required and let some other mob carry the burden
HH
timbhoy3
15:40 on 5 July, 2015
Has Peter Lawell sanctioned our own Bus .or are we still with Parks.Aberdeen have there own Bus with there crest.why not us.
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do celtic not have their own bus? even though its parks that provide it, is it not still custom made for us in terms of what is in it and colour scheme etc? they just dont send any old bus from their yard when we r playing
hearts and rangers also used to have their own buses from parks
not sure if hearts still have theirs, and rangers died so their bus may have been transferred to another club with similar colours
Timaloy29
As quite a few have said, young John McGinn, very good prospect and would work for us on Left hand side, at an age where he could also be coached to cover Left back ?
Would do for me
But
Please Please No to Sammi, he worked for us in Europe, but in my view was poor in the league ( playing/ starting less than 10 games in last season), we cannot afford him as a luxury in the league, at 30 not the future, has done nothing since we released incidentally
Hail Hail
exslaemuirbhoy
15:40 on 5 July, 2015
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Cheers mate
Never too late to get going again.
There are plenty on here out regularly and wide range of ability
Give me a shout if you want to link up with someone locally
HH
Sunday list….on cider now. Plumber completed job , well done to him, job was a bastard but by then we had established GTC’s. (Good Tim Credentials) so the money was, and will be, well spent. A few tiles to be replaced but that’s for another day. Cider to be drunk and a wee Sunday dinner to get tore into…
i remember the e-lites girls going around the kerrydale suite before a european game last year
jeez, i thought i had just walked into seventh heaven
Corkcelt and Ginger
Spot on never EVER EVER A PEN !!!
Joe Brolly goin TONTO is always entertaining though lol
Hail Hail NSNO and UP CORCAIGH .
saltires en sevilla
15:47 on
5 July, 2015
I could be doing with losing a couple of stone, all this beer following Celtic that’s what done it. Just seems to be one big party. Might take you up on that offer
exslaemuirbhoy
15:54 on 5 July, 2015
saltires en sevilla
15:47 on
5 July, 2015
I could be doing with losing a couple of stone,
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Bhoys is the cycling good for losing weight ? Serious question, as looking to try and knock a stone off
Hail Hail
Last thoughts on losing 5 in a friendly.
As a one off, we shouldnt let it concern us, however, given our goals conceded record in European competitive and friendly games there is a trend that cannot be brushed under the ‘ only a friendly carpet’.
In recent years, when we have overachieved in Europe ( particularly under WGS and NL) it has been based around two rigid banks of 4 in defence and midfield, and games have been won by winning a capitalising on set pieces ( Barca / Man U).
Whilst our hi tempo pressing game may look good against SPFL teams with inferior players and inferior fitness, against half decent European teams, we get exposed .
Too often our full backs are caught upfield whilst central defenders and midfielders end up, in the nightmare position of facing their own goal, and consequently goals are conceded.
Until we revert to a more rigid bank of 4 defenders, with 4 midfield in front, we will continue to lose goals against run of the mill European teams, and jeopardise our chances of getting into CL
Sammi for me would do a job he can hold a ball until the midfield join him he also wins headers and he loves Celtic and we would get him free wots not to like ? H.H.
Cowiebhoy
15:57 on
5 July, 2015
Definitely, you need to put the miles in though
Can you imagine wee Jay’s coupon if we re-signed Sammi?
JFH
Why do you think he is being freed ?
And where was all those big European teams when we also allowed him to go for nothing ?
Sorry but we cannot afford the luxury type of player Sammi is – IMHO :-)
He would also be looking for a substantial salary, and at 30 not the right move for us
Hail Hail
cowiebhoy
15:57 on 5 July, 2015
exslaemuirbhoy
15:54 on 5 July, 2015
saltires en sevilla
15:47 on
5 July, 2015
I could be doing with losing a couple of stone,
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Bhoys is the cycling good for losing weight ? Serious question, as looking to try and knock a stone off
Hail Hail
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yes, great for losing weight
but its a torturous hobby
and you get soaked when it rains
swimming is a much better way to lose weight and get fitter
and u dont get err, soaked (shurely shome mishtake – ed)
Clashcitybhoy – I think the high pressing game could really work for us in Europe. However, as you say, the players need to be set up correctly and the personnel needs to be right.
Red Bull Salzburg do it really, really well.
We’ll never win the Champions Lge but we can try and take teams on.
As things stand, too many glaring deficiencies remain after 12 months.
Lose VVD and we may have a big problem.
timaloy29
15:37 on
5 July, 2015
Quonno
What people say publicly doesn’t necessarily represent their private views
Remember the country Celtic operate out of. Celtic gain nothing from publicly “having a go” at them. If we put out a statement distancing us from the Old Firm, the monkeys at the DR and the Sun will still print it.
It would cause the club grief it doesn’t need. Celtic just need to look after themselves. Sevco are doing a great job of tearing themselves apart.
We can look at the above three ways.
We can say what we honestly think and have the SUN and the DR attack us.
We can refuse to comment on the affairs of another club and be accused by the SUN and DR of sitting on the fence.
We can Uncle Tom it about how wonderful THEY are and how we really miss, or even need them and still have the SUN and DR finding excuses to attack us.
Not great choices.
Me. I prefer the first.
Joe Filippis Haircut
I would take Sammy back for the reasons you mention.
We have guys wh can score in SPFL, but not in Europe, and that’s where he could do a job for us.
Also,whilst Sammy’s height didnt intimidate SPFL defenders, it did work in Europe.
exslaemuirbhoy
15:54 on 5 July, 2015
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There are some big bhoys in our group and generally that does not hold them back for runs around 20, 30, 50k etc. etc. the speed and distance agreed in advance and always someone very content just to roll along at slower pace ( usually me :-)
Cowiebhoy
Cycling can help but personally have found that it does not get the weight down quickly as fat moves to muscle in early stages.
The old adage: exercise is gramms, diet is kilos. applies to me every time.
After a few weeks months you could probably do both, depending on your determination. The ongoing benefits to general wellbeing by getting out in a group cannot be understated.
Go on your own by all means, but we all tend to be ‘ good to yourself’ and ease off. Not in The group, they drag everyone along and you will find the aches and pains less of an excuse when they are all clattering along the road and second wind kicks in.
The feeling of achievement and exhilaration lasts for hours
Go for it
foghorn leghorn
16:04 on
5 July, 2015
Never a truer word spoken, but you don’t need to worry about who couldn’y be bothered getting oot the pool for a pee
Clashcitybhoy
16:06 on
5 July, 2015
Joe Filippis Haircut
I would take Sammy back for the reasons you mention.
We have guys wh can score in SPFL, but not in Europe, and that’s where he could do a job for us.
Also,whilst Sammy’s height didnt intimidate SPFL defenders, it did work in Europe.
Up front didn’t like the guy.
Always thought he was the six foot standing and five foot six jumping kind of character.
Ronny is a strange guy, he says things and I almost always agree.
For some reason, these things aren’t manifesting themselves on the pitch.
Even prior to the summer, RD was stating he would try and focus signings on some high quality 17-19 year olds with the promise of training with the first team at Celtic.
Bar Janko, we haven’t been linked with any others.
I’d like us to challenge Ajax, PSV etc for the best young players in Sweden, Belgium and Denmark. Falling that, take boys from Barca, Real, Man City who get to 19/20 without seeing the first team.
Jim Spence – @bbcjimspence
seems Ciftci is set on Celtic which means @dundeeunitedfc must decide take a million or lose him for buttons or nothing.
Guernica,
I remember we played Villareal away from home 7/8 years ago and played an effective pressing game.
From memory we lost 1 nil, by giving away a naive free kick.
Teams like Barca press from 25 yards out from opposition goal , which leaves their fullbacks 55/65 from their own 18 yard box.
That works with their standard of player
I reckon that if we dropped back a few yards, so we still pressed, but maybe just inside opposition half, it would work, as full backs are then only 30 yards from their own 18 yard box, if possession is lost.
( hopefully you can understand my maths !)
Cavendish away too soon
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/
Cowiebhoy
Cycling can help but personally have found that it does not get the weight down quickly as fat moves to muscle in early stages.
The old adage: exercise is gramms, diet is kilos. applies to me every time.
I agree, did the cycling big about 10 years ago, managed three C2C runs and could knock out 20 to 30 miles no problem usually 3 times a week. On C2C runs step up to 50miles in an 8 hour shift. Weight never moved as I ate like a horse.
Diet is the key….been back on the treadmill lately, happy to report tha 22 pounds have been shed in 12 weeks. Running helps but diet is the key..I have cut out sweets and limit beer and cider now. Having a few today though, you have to smell the roses in life.
I intend to shed another 6-8 pounds before my August food and wine festival in Barca….keeping my eye on the prize helps.
Cowiebhoy
When I first met Our mutual friend JN he was a podgy guy .. Then he started back on the bike and ended up a skinny Minnie
He often rode to work from Armadale then back again in the evening
eldo,
i too had a nicer wee encounter with an orangy and orangina yesterday/
ayrshire accents an awe
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Saint Stivs
16:36 on
4 July, 2015
just back from the co-op at bishy.
nice car pulls over, window down, woman leans out. pompous looking fella in the drivers seat. black suit, white shirt, black tie, red faced combo,
“excuse me , i am looking for the railway station ?”
sure,
then i spies a nice looking bowler hat and a folded up jacket with a purple sash on the back seat.
“see if you keep going in the direction your pointed, the station is doon the bottom of the hill”
“thanks”
i hope they like the port.
allways happy to help.
Weightwatchers CSC….
I could do with joining in…..
Saint Stivs
16:32 on
5 July, 2015
There’s a lot of satisfaction to be had from wee moments like that bud
Re “the walk” yesterday. Bottom line is that it was an anti Catholic march, condoned the the Scottish government. Now can you imagine for a moment if it was an anti muslim march, can you imagine the stooshie that would have caused, doesn’t need thinking about.
As for them, they are a disease needing total eradicating once and for all.
KINGLuBO
Only 20 arrests at that sash bash yesterday, polis must have took the fit off the gas or maybe no enough cells in Glasgow
i probably bored the rear hinds of people last night as i got lost in you tube on wullie callows postings of peter mcdougall’s works.
i watched again, JUST FOR LUCK , with a couple of cracker scenes of the Strone and the Gibby in greenock.
then JUST ANOTHER SATURDAY again.
can you be sentimental for places that really were tough and poor.
the man is a genius. imho.
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Peter McDougall
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter McDougall (born 1947, Greenock, Scotland) is a BAFTA and Prix Italia award-winning television playwright whose major success was in the 1970s.
McDougall claims to have had very little schooling and to rarely read books, He began his working life at the age of fourteen in the shipyards of Greater Glasgow and Greenock with future comedian and actor Billy Connolly. Depressed by the harsh conditions and unfulfilled by the menial work, he left Scotland and moved to London, where he worked as a house-painter.
It was while painting Colin Welland’s house that McDougall impressed the actor and writer when relating tales of being the drum major in the Orange walk as a teenager. He was advised to try writing a television play about this and the result was Just Another Saturday, which McDougall wrote in secret and hid even from his first wife, a teacher nearly a decade his senior. Once completed, the script was sent to the BBC Play for Today team, who were enormously impressed but rejected the play because of the sensitive subject matter. McDougall was however asked to try again, and wrote a more intimate piece Just your Luck (1972) based on his sister’s wedding, again exploring the sectarian divide in its story of a Protestant girl who finds herself pregnant by a Catholic boy.
The play caused a furore in Scotland, many people appalled by its portrayal of the people’s earthiness and prejudice. However, there was much positive praise too, one viewer even going so far as to say it was “the most exciting debut since Look Back in Anger.”
At that point, the director John Mackenzie began enquiring after the script of Just Another Saturday and managed to get the play into production, only to then find the piece banned after the head of the Glasgow police said that the script would cause “bloodshed on the streets in the making and in the showing”. After a year Mackenzie managed to persuade the Head of BBC Television Alasdair Milne to press ahead with the play, although some scenes were eventually filmed in Edinburgh to minimise controversy.
The finished film, the script of which was barely changed from the first draft, won massive acclaim on its first transmission in 1975, gained several repeats, and won its author the Prix Italia. McDougall followed this success up with a short kitchen comedy for BBC2, A Wily Couple (1976), part of the Centre Play series and another Play for Today, The Elephants’ Graveyard (1976). During this time McDougall got the opportunity to work with talented and influential producers such as Graeme Macdonald, who later became overall Head Of Drama at the BBC in the 1980s.
Several other television projects ensued, including an aborted sitcom, until McDougall and Mackenzie collaborated again on their final Play for Today, Just a Boys’ Game (1979). Starring blues singer Frankie Miller this was the story of Greenock razor gangs and specifically of one man’s life of alcohol and violence over a twenty-four-hour period. His most violent piece, Just A Boy’s Game the film was also notable for supporting performances from a then unknown Gregor Fisher, Ken Hutchison, comedian Hector Nicol and Jean Taylor Smith. Martin Scorsese has since stated that the bar room brawl scene and its bleak moody atmosphere made the film the Scottish equivalent of Mean Streets. McDougall also wrote the BBC supernatural drama Tarry-Dan Tarry-Dan Scarey Old Spooky Man set in Cornwall about a troubled teenager experiencing dreams of an ancient family curse. Only broadcast once in May 1978 and directed by John Reardon. Mackenzie and McDougall’s last collaboration was on the STV film A Sense of Freedom (also 1979), based on the autobiography of Glaswegian gangster Jimmy Boyle, detailing his crimes and subsequent reform.
McDougall’s subsequent plays Shoot For The Sun (1986), a bleak BBC drama starring Jimmy Nail and Brian Cox about Edinburgh’s heroin problem, and Down Where The Buffalo Go (1988) starring Harvey Keitel, and Down Among The Big Boys (1993) did not meet with as significant critical acclaim. However he has remained good friends since with Keitel, who played the lead in Down Where The Buffalo Go. Keitel was caught wearing a “Get Me Peter” T-shirt during the filming of Down Where the Buffalo Go in a declaration of disillusionment with the director Ian Knox, and his bond with McDougall.[1]
In 1994, McDougall was caught remarking upon the appointment of BBC’s new Head of Drama, future Last King Of Scotland Producer Andrea Calderwood, that the BBC should never had given the job to a “wee lassie”. The two later made up and Andrea was later invited round McDougall’s for dinner, with Billy Connolly and Brian Cox present.[2]
McDougall was assaulted in Glasgow’s West End in 1995, with an assailant brandishing a knife whilst walking home with his son. He was stabbed above the eye and taken to the Western Infirmary, where his wounds required more than 20 stitches.[3]
In 2004 McDougall wrote three short dramas for the stage, starring – amongst others – Robbie Coltrane and Sean Scanlan, which were presented at the Oran Mor in Glasgow as part of the lunchtime theatre event A Play, A Pie and A Pint. He was at this point working on remakes of the Ealing films The Maggie and Whisky Galore but spoke out furiously when his proposed casting of Robbie Coltrane and Robert Carlyle was passed on in favour of English actors. A company, Whiskey Galore Films, was established which included producer Stephen Evans to develop Whisky Galore.[4]
In October 2007, a DVD boxed set featuring most of McDougall’s work, “The Peter McDougall Collection” was released by John Williams Productions. This collection featured three Play for Today titles: Just Another Saturday, The Elephant’s Graveyard, Just A Boy’s Game, and a Screen One drama: Down Among the Big Boys. It also featured a DVD an exclusive documentary Razor Sharp, written and presented by Scottish writer Simon Farquhar, exploring the work and life of Peter McDougall, featuring a rare interview with Peter, and Jon Morrison – star of Just Another Saturday and The Elephant’s Graveyard.[5]
McDougall was finally awarded with a BAFTA in 2008 when he received a lifetime achievement award – for “Outstanding contribution to Scottish broadcasting”.[6] A retrospective multiple screening of John Mackenzie and McDougall’s collaborations was also shown at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2009.[7]
McDougall was also one of a number of prominent Scots who attended the 2010 funeral of Trade Union Leader Jimmy Reid.
As of 2011, McDougall has written a screenplay adaptation of the James Hogg novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, which has garnered interest from long-time friends Billy Connolly and Robbie Coltrane as well as Kelly Macdonald. The script is currently[when?] being viewed by Robert Pattinson and would lead to a remarkable[citation needed] comeback if taken into development.[1]
Scottish filmmaker Eleanor Yule has also made a documentary for the BBC “Late Show” on the work of McDougall.[8]
McDougall currently lives in the West End of Glasgow with his partner, acclaimed director and writer Morag Fullarton, and often can be seen hanging around the famous Oran Mor theatre pub in the West of Glasgow.[9]