As Motherwell won their semi-final yesterday against the second most expensively assembled team in Scotland, the penny began to drop with the last hold-outs that Brother Pedro will be remembered as little more than an expensive stop-gap in the attempt to stop Celtic winning 20-in-a-row.
Let’s be clear: Pedro is not in the top two managers in the league, in fact, Celtic, Aberdeen, St Johnstone, Motherwell, Hibs, Hearts, Kilmarnock and Dundee all have demonstrably better bosses. But there was a reason he was appointed late last season, despite better candidates being (under)employed in Perthshire.
Appointing a competent, provincial, manager, like Tommy Wright, would be an acknowledgement that Newco had no illusions of competing with Celtic. In that role, Wright would out-perform Hibs, Motherwell and St Johnstone, and give Aberdeen a run for their money, but he is not an alchemist.
There is a difference when you appoint an exotic as manager, even an incompetent one. Few potential season ticket customers know what you really have with an exotic. He could be incompetent, but you can equally hope that he turns out to be a truly great appointment, with access to hitherto unexploited talent.
There was no point in Newco giving the job to a reliable but unspectacular candidate like Wright. This club needs to propel itself into a position where it competes against an elite Celtic team, and can navigate its way through four Europa League qualification rounds.
If it lowers the Union Jack and raises the White Flag to mark Surrender of league aspirations, its self-image would be destroyed. I could debate the commercial viability of an aspirational Newco with you all day (fanciful), but it appears that even the decision makers at Ibrox regard the viability of a subservient Newco as untenable.
The club faces Hobson’s Choice. Throw money it cannot afford at strategies selected BECAUSE correct due diligence is impossible, or downsize to a point they know will have a negative impact on ticket sales and future income.
20 years ago this week, Rangers beat Dunfermline 7-0 and were hot favourites to win 10-in-a-row, but the business model had a fundamental weakness: the club were haemorrhaging cash. You can debate whether the subsequent liquidation and newco phoenix club is the same or different to the Rangers some of us are old enough to remember.
What is irrevocably true is that Newco is unrecognisable from Rangers in one hugely important aspect: it will not win the league. Ever.
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NEGANON2 on 23RD OCTOBER 2017 10:39 PM
Well Delaney’s I guess it all depends who you want to get into bed with……
Bankies rule OK we live in Graceland…
Smiley integrated thing
Braw
Madrarua, dont read the London Evening Standard report on newsnow Celtic.
We are described as o@@ f@@@ supporters .
There’s a short match day CQN podcast from Hampden just been posted, featuring some of the best fans in the world. Have a listen…
http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/?p=41366
On a lighter note noticed this on Facebook
Today, if you add your age and year of birth you will get 2017 !
Wonder if that genius is preparing sevco’s impending accounts :0)
Bankier isnae my favourite person,but someone has to pick up the award. Pity he thinks Burbank is in the East of Scotland.
Not that many awards up for grabs,btw-and we were in for two of them. Not bad,not bad at all.
Almore
I congratulated you earlier on using my ticket and Almore effect winning the award. :)
Looked amazing in Jinky’s Albufeira
Burnbank,Ffs. My spellchecker is due another kicking shortly(!)
Just before I head off oot
FtSFA, have you charged Regufe Alves with violent conduct yet ?
Have you charged Donald Park for holding shares in 2 SPFL clubs yet ?
Probably not
Dickson, Bryson, Petrie and Regan all still in place ??? For how much longer ?
And should we add the Hamilton rep to this list ???
Nytol & FtSFA, from FIFA’s best club fans in the world
DALLAS DALLAS WHERE THE HECK IS DALLAS,
A plague on all their houses. Hail, Hail
On third row of BBC Sport website under heading …
“Celtic fans recognised in FIFA Awards” …
and even then you have to scroll down for the brief detail – and it doesn’t mention the word “best” anywhere !
The pain is great in the establishment I fear ….
PRESTONPANSBHOY
Only if you’ve already celebrated a birthday this year. Eejits…
Meant to add
DD, Lord Livingstone is no longer on our Board
He is a Goverment Business advisor though
Nytol and Hail Hail
NB
I walked by Clydemuir school this afternoon. It is the only non denom school down this part of Clydebank. Majority of weans playing fitba had Celtic strips on. Dalmuir is Green and White. It has skipped a generation. Their children are Celtic supporters. Which is nice.
Dobra
THETIMREAPER on 23RD OCTOBER 2017 10:44 PM
HAMILTONTIM on 23RD OCTOBER 2017 10:13 PM
Was at the Forum tonight. Overall i thought it was a very positive discussion and i think most folks who were there would agree. Was going to share some of my thoughts on it but in light of the award win (which was ironically announced during the meeting) i’ll leave it for another day. What i will say is that there were many issues discussed in terms of the support overall home/away/abroad and from supporters of different backgrounds and affiliations. There was also a recognition of the positive contribution of the GB and an acknowledgment that many of the issues are unfairly laid at their door. Will fill you in when i see you.
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As you know tonight’s meeting is nothing like what was proposed and agreed by the Club. It’s a betrayal of trust and honest endeavour.
Anyways…what an incredible achievement this award is!!!!
As I’ve already said (but the blinkered appear to have ignored!) this award represents what we’re really about.
If you watched the game, were there and raised a bit of paper, screamed, roared, sobbed with emotion at what was around you, heard the score hours/days later in far off shores, saw footage on TV or social media and smiled or you simply stood on the park wearing Hooped jerseys on that day in May on the verge of invincibility and gasped at the thousands around you.
Be proud, you’re Celtic and you’re part of this award.
Cowie
He is Celtic daft and working for our benefit in Westminster.
HH
If the huns go bust, will it affect King renaging on the Shares Offer?
Live on ITV now!!!
A BIG Well done to us, it’s absolutely fantastic news and well deserved.
I am going to enjoy this, nearly as much as I enjoyed the whole of last season , and Saturday against Hibs!
Take it as it’s meant a huge compliment to ALL the Celtic family !
BB
The huns going bust is the Lying King’s great goal. The Brit government and HMRC are onto him though. Much to his discomfort. :)
wtf,
this is some spin on a positive news story. some people really hate celtic.
http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11787/11095897/celtic-fans-win-fifa-best-award-amid-uefa-sanctions
mega well done , what an achievement for the family , tops again.
HH
CCB,
Thoughts with your cuz Margaret…
mmm….so Ian Bankier, the man who dubbed some of our fans racist….goes on a Fifa jolly to accept a World Award on behalf of those same fans….hypocrite
H.H.
BMCUW
Devil’s dandruff show?
Horrible drug.
Well, I didn’t hold up a piece of paper that day ’cause I couldn’t be at the game but I was in Lisbon in 1967 and that is good enough for me…
Delanys…
That is braw news ..please let us know if they are having a fund raiser ,you ken hoo we love a good raffle…
Smiley hoops for all thing
Negs probably got the link (integration) …but I have it on the whiskiest authority that he is a braw lad…just mirrorfied… Hahahahaha braw new word ..
Hail hail…
Braw
hurting huns
from sky:
Celtic won FIFA’s Best Fans award in London on Monday, less than 24 hours after they were dealt further sanctions by UEFA.
The Old Firm supporters won the award of best fans for their tribute to the Lisbon Lions in May – for the 50th anniversary of the club winning the European Cup – after voting from other clubs’ supporters on FIFA’s website.
may there pain deepen and widen….they let their club die
https://twitter.com/DBestseventy2/status/922577497807577091?s=08
The huns taking our award badly…
This just be a ” wurld recirt – shoorly “
Saints
Notice no one added their name to that drivel, even got a reference to the OF fans wtf
Hearing we get £11k for the award so less the fine we’re a few grand up today!
To all you young Hoops, back in the 1990’s we Celtic Boys used to sing an auld song from 1975 ( When I was 19 going on 20) by a group called ” PILOT”
The song was called ” It’s Magic”
At this time I would love to hear the Celtic fans sing the same song to the word’s £ It’s gonna be 10 in a row” !
I wish I could do the link…maybe someone else will be so kind ?
Go for it Bhoys and Ghirls…great song back then…and the huns will HATE for us to sing it now
” Oh oh ho it’s Magic…it’s gonna be ten in a row”
HH
NB
Neg is a braw big bhoy fae Clydebank North. Hard being a Tim growing up in Drumchapel. Neg can handle it.
Dobra
The orinigal song By PILOT was from 1975….where did all those years go ?
HH
This sent to BT Sport tonight –
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Your news item dated 23/10/17 is ridiculous and is lazy journalism. It begins “Celtic fans have been recognised with a gong at the FIFA Best Awards in London.
The Old Firm supporters won the award of best fans for their tribute to the Lisbon Lions in May – for the 50th anniversary ……..”
Why use the antiquated term “Old Firm”? What other British club would have an item entirely related to them linked to a (nominal) competitor?
This story is a recognition of Celtic fans and their behaviour. If Spurs fans had won the award you would not have brought Arsenal into the item. Because it would have had nothing to do with Arsenal.
Celtic fans want to be judged by their own standards and behaviour and are happy to welcome feedback such as the (positive) comments from Fifa, the police service in Munich and the authorities in cities across Europe where they have brought joy and laughter over many decades.
They reject any association with any other team, especially one which has struggled to behave with such dignity.
My complaint is that the item would have been more appropriate without the needless use of the term “Old Firm” and that the use of that term dilutes and distracts from a story which is otherwise wholly positive. BT should insist their “journalists” desist from using the moribund and insulting “Old Firm” term.
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If you agree and you have a BT Sport account you may want to consider also having a pop at them.
If you do not have a BT Sport account you may want to consider also having a pop at them.
I think we need to challenge this “Old Firm” nonsense every time we see it. It is not an “Old Firm” game , it is a Celtic v Rangers game. It is not an “Old Firm” crisis/controversy/dispute but, almost always a “Rangers” crisis/controversy/dispute. Hee Haw to do with us.
More and more the Ibrox mob and their media sycophants need the “Old Firm” label to make their inadequacies, moral deficits and turgid “Marching, Boldly, Backwards” philosophy a wider issue than just a Rangers disease and I think every true Celtic fan should reject this “Old Firm” label every time a lazy or mischievous “journalist” or commentator uses it.
I’ll feedback re any response I get.
TTR,
Result!!!!…tho am sure the fine would’ve been more punitive without the foreknowledge of tonight’s result ;-))
GBCSC
H.H.
Rangers fans win FIFA Best flies award amid UEFA non sanctions
Rangers fans come together to display ‘protecting the players “on the pitch at the scottish cup final 2016.
The Old Firm supporters won the award of best fans for their tribute act to a long dead previous club supporters tradition of invading the pitch and assaulting fenians and taigs and daigo catholics, for the 44th anniversary of the dead club winning the European Cup Winners cup, ( after didnt let the quality street reserves enter)
In a ceremony attended by 1690 staunchly stupid wee arrow peoples , who took part in a card display which showed an image of the toilets in the barcelona dressing rooms and a hairy faced captain, accompanied by the words ‘Barca Bigots ” at their final match ever , may 2014. Portuguese capital.
Mark Dingwall, a fans representive of a handsome person “The display that was at the centre of that award was for a team of players that all grew up hating catholics, and celtic, and the south of ireland and green, and popes and them nuns that intimidate you on argyle street.
“They were coached by a man who was a leg end, born in the east of Scotland, who started his career in the army, as a true brit, going abroad and keeping the locals down for the benefit of the empire. god bless mr wallace. He said, ‘a club is nothing without its people’.
“That philosophy we take to heart and that drives everything we do. On behalf of our fans and across the world, I accept this honour with gratitude and humility. and if you dont like it we will row a boat out too the clyde and lets hope you dont fall out ”
Meanwhile Rangers were not fined for supporter behavior in the last six years as they are a new club, and no way was past incidents at Newcastle, Birmingham, Cologne, Turin, Barcelona , Eindhoven, and Manchester, anything to do with them what so ever.
watp.
f you timmy
WEEBOBBYCOLLINS on 23RD OCTOBER 2017 11:27 PM
Well, I didn’t hold up a piece of paper that day ’cause I couldn’t be at the game but I was in Lisbon in 1967 and that is good enough for me…
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If that was in reference to my post did you happen to read the rest of it?
Big Jimmy
Was talking to some crackin bhoys aged half my age in Munich. Said I loved the Supertramp Scott Sinclair song. They hadnae a clue what I was talkin about. I hadnae a clue about the Scooter plagiarist they spoke about. ;))