It is very good news that Kilmarnock fans have voted to give Celtic three stands for next weekend’s game which will see the league title won if Celtic earn a point. As a result, several thousand more Celtic fans will be able to attend the game and avoid listening to their club being belittled as they watch ESPN.
I hope Neil Lennon continues to speak in forthright terms when his team is undermined.
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Estadio on 2 April, 2012 at 14:53 said:
And definitely finally ( I am burning drinking hours) a wee true story with a lot of words perhaps, but with pics that make my chest puff out every time I look back through them.
http://tinyurl.com/btqg5ul
Excellent article.
GourockEmeraldBhoy
No worries mate, Public bar is to the left side of the Hotel, they have 2 or 3 big screens. HH
O G Rafferty
Who do you back to get the title winning goal ,it was wee Naka last time down there ,is it going to be Charlie with a similar FK ,or could Hooper banish his poor form with the clincher .
C’mon you bhoys in green
For those that don’t know DoS stands for one of the following:
Denial of Scheme
Denial of Sectarianism
Denial of Story
or
Denial of Service
It is also often called a DDoS which stands for Dermot Desmond our Shareholder.
So now you all know.
HH!
If the Big L happens this week , “Good Friday” won’t really do it justice…..we might have to petition the Christian faith worldwide to call it Fantastic Friday for one year only……or Fabulous Friday……or Carlsberg Friday (if any major drinks company would like to officially sponsor the day by providing free product to anyone buying Ice Cream and Jelly )…….
Did anyone hear Kevin McCarra on talksport today? He spoke about his new Celtic book. McCarra said that if Celtic were in the EPL they would be one of the TOP 3 biggest clubs in world football. As we already knew, he reminded everyone that the 80000 who went to Seville was the biggest trans-migration between different countries since WWII.
Larsson and McStay on 2 April, 2012 at 17:53 said:
‘If the Big L happens this week , “Good Friday” won’t really do it justice’
Good Friday is followed by the Resurrection.
I think we should be on our guard for what may be to come.
ernie lynch on 2 April, 2012 at 17:57 said:’
Good Friday is followed by the Resurrection.
I think we should be on our guard for what may be to come.
I do agree with you Ernie on this , but I think all roads lead to the law courts as far as the resurrected Huns are concerned….and that’s just for the infighting between all with a vested interest
Evening bhoys, warm and hun free as ever.
I’m in the camp that they won’t be liquidised till the end of the season.
I also believe there won’t be a hun team in the spl/sfl next season, court cases will see to that.
I hope I’m wrong btw…
jimmci at 14:42
If you are in Rome, go to Abbey Theatre. Wonderful location near Piazza Navona. It’s heart of the old town.
http://abbey-rome.com/
Twists and turns on previous page… I agree, we need at least 4 first team players if we are going to have a shot at the Champions League.
Firstly that battering ram I keep going on about. It’s the missing piece of the striking jigsaw.
We have Samaras who can play up front on his own away from home.
I suspect if we hold onto Brozek we might find he is another lone striker option as he’s supposed to be fast.
We then have Hooper and Stokes for the home games with the new battering ram to mix things up.
We need a playmaker but I have high hopes that young Ibrahim might be the answer here…. If not add this to the shopping list. Especially important when we are playing 451 away from home.
I think we need another true winger to supplement Forrest (we have missed him in the past few games even if he was going off the boil)
Finally we need a top class centre half… Maybe the new Polish guy will be good but I doubt he will be top drawer.
We also desperately need a large clear out.
Murphy
Odea
Thompson
Rasmussen
Loovens
Dan
Cha
Paddy
McGinn
Juarez
That should free up enough wages to pay for 4 new recruits….
Is it just me or is all this P Murray and the blue knights stuff just strange .
Who are these blue knights ,you would think with all that went on regards CW the MSM would want to get some inside info on who these guys are and what credentials they have
hail hail
Serge on 2 April, 2012 at 17:45 said:
Thanks again
HH
Evening all. Had a superb night yesterday in the company of some extraordinary CQN gentlemen orchestrated by the Dynamic Duo of MWD and CRC. Truly great to meet so many fellow CQN’rs for the first time. Hamiltontim, Dick Byrne, HebCelt, Mort, Four Green Fields, Subterranean, 31003, Smashing Milk Bottles and I know I have forgotten at least 2 others so my apologies. Also good to see Old Tim and Blantyre Tim as well. Special mention to MWD for the ticket gift. You are some man my friend. Thanks all of you for making my short trip home a memorable event. Open invites to all of you if you are ever in the Columbus, Ohio area.
tommytwiststommyturns at 14:29
I liked that picture very much. White and red our-leaf clover on the flag looks fantastic.
Marrakesh Express on 2 April, 2012 at 17:54 said:
Heard the interview today,it was Martin O’neil who said top 3.
They wouldn’t be attempting a phoenix at Easter to fit in with mythology twice would they?
But if they die before the season ends SPL rules state that there will be no relegation. Good news for Dunfemline then. With Ross County (presumably) to come up there is then no space left for a Newco.
I think they will have to keep the club alive somehow until the season ends. Maybe they will be applying for the opposite of an extension this year!
Some bhoy on from Belfast give wee shuggie it tight.
Didn’t realise Ayrshire wasn’t in the west of Scotland.
Need a wee geography lesson shuggie boy…….
Marrakesh Express on 2 April, 2012 at 17:54 said:
I have read his book and recommend it to anyone interested in the story of Celtic.
It contains anecdotes and quotes from Celtic people that I have not previously heard.
He stays away from current contentious issues, but is none the worse for that.
Final league fixtures to be announced within the next 48 hours – STV
As I have said before
Would the yanks be in to buy a Scottish team playing in Div3 .?
No chance .
So what have they been told by D&D or the SFA/SPL to be thinking of liquidating ragers .
Believe me bhoys ,this decision has already been made and the rats in the MSM
are the one’s who have been given the gig to give all us mugs the good news .
Well I for one won’t be back if these cheats get there way ,not a single penny more will I spend in this corrupt set up .
We should be looking for ways to back our club and drain every single penny from the rest .IMO it is the only way we can fight back against this mob
hail hail
Now that I am totally bladdered I have to admit that my favourite recollection from staggering round the globe is this one…….pics at the end so apologies for those who get pished off wae loads of words.
Mystical it was!
http://tinyurl.com/c8fwfae
Hail Hail
Estadio
* enjoying watching the awesome Friday rumour gathering steady pace amongst us Internet *
Mad Men CSC
There is no Old Firm.
So according to Hugh sporting integrity does not matter!
Master defence “what about the TV deal?”
Ref got 3 decisions wrong…..all in benefit of Celtic….
No change then
Hail Hail
Remember on this day,the selfless action made by three men to rid Fanad and Donegal of the tyranny of the landlords.
On Easter Monday at Kindrum,the annual memorial will be held at 3.00 clock,see you there.
Hoping to watch the game on Saturday either in The Stores Portsalon or Village Inn Kerrykeel,any CQNs about.Slan
” I really don’t think Administration will happen ”
Gordon Smith
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but they will be back in the SPL and there’s nothing we can do about it.
Estadio
did you see the answer to your musical question
Some quick thoughts re the D&P Rangers roadshow and a remarkable admission by the selling administrator!
http://scotslawthoughts.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/a-financially-stricken-institution-and-an-amount-of-toxicity-in-there-any-bidders/
Hearing rumours of interesting notice possibly going into the Herald on Wednesday…more news when I can get it.
RTC struck down with a DOS attack – anyone who wants to chip in can do so on my blog till RTC comes back to life! Will RTC be back before Rangers liquidate? Who can tell?
Mickybhoy
I did indeed and replied as follows
http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/?p=8513&cpage=10#comment-1364864
That’s not bad for someone who is battered.
Hail Hail
Estadio
League winning goal I hope it’s Charlie mulgrew.
Keech Jackson still on tve cutting edge
Craig Whyte profile: The Scots billionaire on the brink of taking over the club he loves
Nov 18 2010 Keith Jackson
Craig Whyte started playing the stock market at the age of 15. By the time he left school he had more than £20,000 in his bank account.
Today, aged just 39, this financial whizzkid from Motherwell stands on the brink of pulling off the biggest deal of his life – and finally bringing the curtain down on one of the longest-running sagas in Scottish football.
Record Sport understands self-made billionaire Whyte has entered into the final stages of negotiations to buy control of the club he loves from Sir David Murray.
And he’s still one year younger than captain Davie Weir.
A deal worth around £30million is now believed to have reached such an advanced stage that sources say Whyte, a high-roller who splits his time between a home in London and the idyllic Castle Grant in Grantown-on-Spey, could even have the keys to Ibrox in time to fund a major refurbishment of Walter Smith’s top-team squad in January.
The news will delight Rangers supporters who have been fretting over the future of their club ever since Murray first slapped a For Sale sign on the front door of Edmiston Drive around three years ago.
As the club’s financial health deteriorated to such an extent the banks moved in to control the purse strings, a series of false dawns came and went.
First, a consortium headed up by South African-based tycoon Dave King came to the fore only to fail to meet Murray’s asking price.
Then, in March this year, Londonbased property developer Andrew Ellis emerged as the frontrunner and was granted a period of exclusivity in order to get the deal done.
But Ellis, now part of the consortium, did not have the financial clout to back up his bold promises and his bid collapsed, leaving Rangers firmly in the grip of the Lloyds Group.
Exiled Glaswegian King was then talked up once more as the possible saviour but he was also engaged in a long-running battle with the tax man and while those issues remained unresolved, he too looked l ike an increasingly unlikely white knight for a club now engulfed by crisis.
But yesterday, quite out of the blue, Record Sport learned a new man is at the table and that a deal to end Murray’s 22-year reign is ready to be completed.
And that man is a relative boy.
By the age of 26, Whyte was already Scot land’s youngest self-made millionaire. Now, 13 years on, and in charge of a vast business empire, his wealth is off the radar.
Whyte is a venture capitalist who has made his millions from playing the markets – a skill he secret ly began honing in his third year at Glasgow’s Kelvinside Academy. In one of his few interviews he revealed how he immediately regretted going to the private school – because he despised playing rugby.
He said: “I hated the discipline of it. It was a rugby-only school, which I didn’t play as I was interested in football.” Whyte worked weekends for his dad’s plant hire firm. And he saved up his wages to fund his habit of gambling on Stock Exchange.
It is said that, by the time he left school, he had more cash in his bank than many of his teachers.
At 19, he was in charge of his own hire plant.
Now he owns his own castle – one of the most historic buildings in Scotland. And very soon he could be adding Rangers to his portfolio. It remains to be seen if Whyte’s move to capture the club will f lush any other parties out of the woodwork because – despite their failure to strike a deal with Murray – King and his consortium have yet to throw in the towel on their own ambitions.
They had put together a package worth around £18m but this was flatly rejected and Ellis drove the price up when he agreed to pay Murray more than £30m.
The club’s debt has been reduced by around £10m since then but the selling price remains the same.
Now, quite clearly, Whyte believes he will be able to close the deal and the young gun must have said enough to impress Murray, who has stated all along that he will only sell the club to the right people – men with enough money to take the club forward.
Who knows? Murray may even regard Whyte as something of a kindred spirit.
After all, Murray was himself aged just 37 back in 1988 when he launched a takeover of the Ibrox club.
It was the beginning of one of the most successful periods in Rangers’ history but Murray’s aggressive pursuit of European glory eventually saw him writing the kind of cheques that his club could simply not afford.
Now Whyte is bringing his money to the table but it remains to be seen if he will adopt the same scatter-cash approach as the man who has owned the club for the past two decades.
But if he brings in even half of the number of trophies Murray delivered then the fans are unlikely to be complaining.
Rehab is a bag of laughs. come visit BT
WDH
I did on Saturday…
should be a laugh!!
will the roadmap be a series of dead ends?
Frankie@GersnetOnline
I’ll be on later this evening to post a variety of important information on one bidder’s roadmap for club. #8pm #rangers
Frankie@GersnetOnlineReply
Stay tuned to our forum & Twitter feed for some exclusive info on one of the bids for Rangers. #8pm #rangers #ownership #preferredbidder
Has anyone heard the media judgement on Aluko?
If it was a penalty because contact was made, was the Stoke’s penalty a penalty or was the fact no one heard the contact the reason the penalty was not given.
Should our referrees be supplied with hearing aids as well as glasses or were both decisions wrong?
I thought both were penalties.
Have any of the main Scottish news outlets picked up on Alex Thompson’s incredible revelations yet about Martin Bain’s letter?
You couldn’t have suppressed that story in Stalinist Russia. But you can in Scotland. If it’s about Rangers.
We all know it happens. We’ve watched it our whole lives. But it is still incredible.