I know what you’re thinking. After the media heavyweights told you, on the day Neil Lennon resigned from Celtic, that he was going because he was unhappy with the amount of money he had to spend, pitching up at Bolton Wanderers is a bit curious. What you were told that day was nonsense, deliberately headlined to undermine Celtic.
Neil had been in the shop window since the Everton job came up in May 2013 and had long decided he wanted a crack at managing in England before the end of last season.
On paper, the Bolton job looks daunting. The club are bottom of the second tier of English football, while those immediately above them, Blackpool, Fulham, Wigan and Birmingham, like Bolton have recently had Premier League experience. It’s early enough in the season that survival is a reasonable expectation, but Neil will know little about the squad he takes over, or about their ability to step up.
Taking this job is a huge risk to an accomplished CV but so is spending an extended period on the side-lines as an out-of-work manager. Whatever the reasons he didn’t land a better job over the summer, Neil is a better manager than the English clubs appear to believe. He’ll get Bolton organised and picking up points against teams with better players, just as he did regularly in Europe with Celtic.
In other news many of the same media heavyweights referred to above today report Arsenal are preparing a bid for a Celtic player, in January. After selling us the same story that the same player would be subject to the same bid back in August.
It’s as though they have space to fill on the sports pages and there’re not been a lot of football recently.
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Tet, too true. Got some revenge on sat on a horse called Big Easy, romped in at 10s. Went from the bookies to the hootenanny…canny remember much. Thank god the good lady was with me, help me fill in the blanks on Sunday morning!
happy green bunny.
We have just moved to Mellieha,at the village end not the beach end.Have been coming to Malta since 70,s.Know it very well.
Was in Munchies last week on a few occasions.
Used to watch the games in there when David(Arsenal fan) had games on downstairs.
Maltese tims(not all) watching games in Billy’s Bar in Mellieha.
My mum and Dad’s ashes are scattered across from Diplomat.Portomaso lots of top class restaurants been on a few ocassions.
Herr Canamalar
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MWD said AYEJa
Auldheid
21:34 on 13 October, 2014
“Otherwise it just looks like a device to get at the Board, which is surely not what paying a living wage is about and only serves to undermine the ethical aspect of the resolution.”
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Surely you are not seriously suggesting that this is the case?
I think your comment is at least misplaced and at most distasteful given what Celtic are meant to be about. It appears that is not ok to question the FatCat salaries of the board?
Can I ask you if you backed or supported the board when it rejected the living wage at the last AGM?
HH
CRC
Auldheid
21:34 on
13 October, 2014
It seems to me that since the support appear to want it done as a matter of club policy that the cost should be born in some way across the club as a whole.
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I`ve seen no evidence to suggest that the support “appear to want it done.”
Are there any numbers to back up the assertion?
I would sincerely doubt it.
We both know how lobby groups work.
Melbourne Mick
21:51 on
13 October, 2014
Tontine Tim
Sorry for the late reply, i’m in Oz and just wakened.
Regarding the assault on young Brian McLaughlan
*he was over here on holiday a few years back and mentioned that there was nae comparison with his injury and durrants……..his was much worse.
I was about to say the same thing Macjay.
3, 000 supporters signed a petition. How many Celtic supporters are there?
Has any Celtic employee complained on a Celtic forum?
Frankly, it appears to be a condescending middle class issue.
In the best tradition of charity, Celtic do a lot of unadvertised work with the homeless for example. That is more important to me than a gimmick.
Captain
Who puts the money into the charity foundation..?
Who puts money into Celtic.?
Who takes all the plaudits?
Captain Beefheart
Just so I understand, are you suggesting that since any Celtic employee is not complaining that they are not being paid more than the minimum wage on a Celtic forum that the Celtic support backing a higher wage for these employees are condescending?
HH
CRC
More nonsense half hour …
Auldheid
Resolutions don’t achieve anything quickly if at all …filibuster ..CFC are supreme exponents of this
Captain Beefheart
22:09 on
13 October, 2014
Has any Celtic employee complained on a Celtic forum?
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Precisely.
What right does any external group have to interfere with my working conditions?
Is this an attempt to “unionise?”
If the wage increase is implemented,how would this impact existing employees?
Would downsizing be implemented?
Would there be restrictions imposed increasing future staff numbers?
The “living wage”………….same for a a 21 year old as a widow with a number of mouths to feed and for those with a second job.
A ludicrous concept.One size fits all.
A Celtic Trust power play.
No more ,no less.
Absolutely Blantyre.
No Celticroller but some of the comments are condescending.
Guess we won’t agree on this.
Guys.. just a wee reminder.. The Foundation will organise a Foodbank uplift outside CP on Saturday 2nd November before the game v Inverness, in aid of the Trussell Trust. All items will be delivered to the Calton Church on Helenvale street on the day for distribution to local needy people. The uplift and delivery will be done by the GB. Please try and give a little. Hail Hail and God Bless all Celtic Supporters everywhere.
By the way, thanks to AnT and MM for their thoughts earlier. I will say no more on the subject tonight.
macjay
Does the minimum wage not also fit the same ludicrous concept that one size fits all? The only difference is that that living wage would take more out of the poverty trap.
Just imagine for 1 minute and we have a progressive government who decides that they adopt the living wage as the new minimum wage. In return they reduce the amount they have to pay in respect of tax credits as people are paid more and claim less. In exchange the government could reduce the Ers NI rate payable by companies, who are now paying a higher wage to those employees.
Just maybe it would work
HH
CRC
Good to see the Daily Record struggling badly. Its the most anti Celtic rag ever, but at the same time played a major role in the death of Rfc1872.
I dont know if I’m more amazed at chief spoof-merchant Jackson for selling the huns yet another lie (Saviour King), or the gullible ones for buying it, after his ‘Billionaire’ wind up.
God awful journalism to blame anyway.
F07
Nice one, and glad you had a good time >}
HH
CRC
Aye, that would work alright.
Sadly governments dinny think like that, a classic eg when thatcher closed down all the mines throwing many, many thousands on the dole and stripping away any self respect they had.
It would have been cheaper to subsidise the mines, the mind boggles how they work and think.
HH
Auldheid-part of PLs bonus is made up of money saved on certain budgets,including player transfers.Given the amount of loan players we have ,some would see that as corrupt.HH
captain beefheart,
I’m working class and it leaves a bad taste in my mouth that we pay below the living wage.HH
My bonus is based on KPIs and the FFC
Face Fitting Coefficient
Sipsini
We all work hard
I never met anyone who does not
Wages are not exponential but should be
I support income tax
I pay fearsome tax, but happy as I am not a harder worker than a lower tax payer
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
Something I don’t quite understand is your convictions,oft-stated,that the blog is full of leftwing,bleeding-heart liberal middle-class proletariat revolutionaries.
I know you wouldn’t put it all in the same sentence as I have done,but those are descriptions you have used time and again.
So,which of them do you prefer when you are grouping us all together?
For me,the only thing most of us have in common is our love of Celtic.
And our hatred of injustice.
If elements PL’s renumeration are based on how much we pay, or do not pay, for a signing then we have a fundamental problem at the club.
To have this form of micro management at a chief exec level and being bonused on this is absolute nonsense, as all it does is deliver a number and not a tangible outcome/delivery to our club.
Please tell me it’s not on his annual KPI’s!!
Bada Bing 2238:-
As well as that, our player trades seem to be routing through an ever reducing number of channels nowadays :
– agent Dudu Dahan (brought Ambrose, Kayal, Gershon, Balde, Bitton to the club, placed Balde with Beveren on loan);
– Man City, employers of a certain Mark Lawwell, and benevolent providers of Guidetti and Denayer on loan;
captain & macjay.
your a pair of jobbies.
coneybhoy,
You’ve not met anyone that works hard…you want to come into my work…join the masons and were an apron on a Thursday night and you can get away with murder.
Coneybhoy, obviously that should be…anyone that doesn’t work hard.
CRC
Are you suggesting redistribution of wealth? It’ll never catch on!
20 year old earning £5.03p per hour! Minimum wage. Living wage is much higher £7.65p per hour.
Need yer chimney swept guv’r?
tgbs
Did we not have something with a Swedish club-agent a while back, Bangura and a couple of others from the same source, I remember posting about it at the time, canny be ersed looking for them, but something rings a bell.
HH
Ronnie….. Any influence?
Martin Odegaard
Auldheid 21:34 on 13 October, 2014
M6bhoy
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Was it club policy to waste £2m. on buying out Tony Mowbray’s contract then sack him less then ten months later and paying him and his management team a hefty compensation?
Is it club policy to drive supporters out of the stadium in the tens of thousands?
Is it club policy for the team to play in front of a half-empty CP for most domestic matches?
Is it club policy to deny the new manager the funds to strengthen the team to get into the CL group stage and lose up £20m, in the process?
Is it club policy to squander millions on duds like Bangura, Balde, Pukki and Boerighter?
Is it club policy to have five loanees on our books thus undermining the new manager’s credibility after he said he was not in favour of signing loan players?
Is it club policy to lie to the fans?
Jeez, I could go on and on but life’s just too short. Prey tell me what aspect of club policy is he successfully implementing as it’s sure as hell not registering with me and thousands of others?
There’s more than enough above to justify sacking PL for being incompetent never mind cutting his salary but that won’t happen as he’s just another fat suit with his nose in the trough and as long as he does his master’s bidding, he’s bullet proof.
There may well be an ethical reason for the club paying a living wage but first and foremost it comes down to reducing the gap between the highest earners and those at the bottom. That as numerous studies have shown makes for good business where all employees feel valued and work better.
m6bhoy
Aye, and we all have a good laugh at the suits robbing the hun blind.
HH
MacJay
Hi Pally??
Nice tae greet ye..
Ma take oan the Celtic Trust…
It’s an Irrelevance.. No Needed.. Spare Tire(With a Puncture!)
It is a Nest of Liberals…
Ye know whit a Liberal is..?
He or she is the Kinda Guy Who When Oan board the Queen Mary..sees a Fellow Strugglin…. n No Doot Drooning in the Watter.
so..whit diz the Liberal Dae?
Ye hid tae ask.. So, Ah wull Tell Ye..
Why ,the Liberal Guy/Gal… Throws a Line tae the Man in the Watter.. who is By noo going doon fur the Third Time..
But.. Afore the Drooning Man kin Grab the Life Line..
The Liberal Snatches it Back..
as..He/She..the Liberal ,his Jist spotted another .. Man.. Farther along.. who is Also
Struglling in the Watter..
So The Liberal Noo Casts the Life Line his New Pet Project.
But, Haud oan.. Ah am No Finished Yet~
N..neethur is the Liberal Gent/Gal..
fur. You Guessed it~
Oh..Oh.. He/She hiz jist Spotted ANITHER DROONING Man..
So…..
Yes, Liberals Are Always oan the Look oot Fur Folk in Trouble..
But.. The Trouble is.. that The Liberals Never seem tae Finish ..whit they Start.
Oh They Mean Well.. Awe Right.
But, the want tae Help.. Well.. EVERYBUDDY..
N.. well.. That is jist not oan.
Hiz naebuddy evah told ’em…
Look Guys…
“The road tae Perdition.. is Filled wi Good Intentions.”
The Value of the Celtic Trusts Actions..oan Anything..
Is Best Viewed by the Jaundiced Eye.
Nice Chatting,Pally..as evah
Kojo
Still,Laughin’
Do people still expect Celtic 2014 to be the same charitable Celtic 1888 ?
Football has moved on like the rest of the world.
lawwell works to make as much money he can just like everybody else in the world he dosent write his own contract if Celtic pay him x amount it’s because they think he’s worth it.
Celtic are a business and like every other business the guys at the top get plenty and the guys at the bottom don’t, rightly or wrongly Celtic pay what they have to and not a penny more like every other business so paying more than the minimum wage just won’t happen, that’s the world we live in HH
Sipsini
That is my whole point, effort does not eqate to gain
I use myself as an example because I work hard and get paid
But most hard workers get paid a wee bit better than the clown who goes home at 4
I am no cleverer than my pals but I earn more. Not fair. In a socialistic world I might make commisssar.
I am the only socialist in the financial district of Dublin,so help me oot