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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TIMGREEN,
well said Sir….though I doubt you’ll get any sort of comprehensible response, if any….you should mibbe have added that the old firm died with the continuing liquidation of rangers and that Celtic have since refused to use the term ;-))
FTSFA FTSPFL FTDUP
H.H.
HT…no criticism, none whatsoever…don’t be so touchy…just stating a personal fact. Couldn’t be at the Hearts game…sadly.
WeeBobby
My post mentioned many, many facets of the Celtic support and those who deserve credit for this award.
There were several references to those who weren’t actually there.
Further to my post at 11.38, I see on here (PARANOIDBYEXPERIENCE on 23RD OCTOBER 2017 11:27 PM) that SkySports are also giving it big with the “Old Firm” label to dilute theimact of the FIFA award. I can’t launch a complaint against them as they only accept comments from subscribers and I cancelled my sub in the summer due to their pathetic and biased coverage of Scottish football.
If you still subscribe to Sky as a Celtic fan, the key question is WHY?? but, if , for reasons that escape me, you persist then, please, challenge them on their antiquated use of the “Old Firm” label. It is used deliberately and persistently to try to diminish us by association with whatever version of the Ibrox mob.
goodnight Bhoys
HH
Delanys…
I am sure he can….wis jist saying in ma daft way that he makes us all check the mirror…
And that is always a good thing….the bhoy in the bubble …never lasts long..
Dobra my friend
Braw
WEEBOBBYCOLLINS on 23RD OCTOBER 2017 9:41 PM
Wee question….a few minutes before Well’s first goal yesterday the camera cut to a shot of the hun crowd and commentator said, “There’s a familiar face” Anyone know to whom he was referring?
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bela lagosi
Dena29..
Goodnight ghirls
Braw
get him signed,
dont give a monkeys if he fits in the team, just annoys the huns,
http://www.talkingbaws.com/2017/10/james-mcclean-delighted-receive-signed-shirt-kieran-tierney/
Cant find anything on the BBC about the award. They are running with the fine on their Glasgow & the West homepage.
Saint,
Probably Regan !
Big Jimmy….as requested…..you can even karaoke it ;-))
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZCZ1pl37Ag
H.H.
Saint Stivs…couldn’t have been Bela Lugosi as he’s not ugly enough… :-)
I did see the Glib one later…had to cover my grandson’s eyes…
Night all.
Be proud. UTLR
the award footage, Bankier makes an arse of it.
but holy moley who was the girl making the announcement with E’to
NB
Big Neg fae the Drum has broad Celtic shooders.
Dobra
noel fielding celebrates the award/
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/10/4d/3d/104d3d7ba3a666dfdc8b649dfc6827aa–celtic-fc-s-style.jpg
a wee tune before cot
https://youtu.be/US9nVBuDHhg
Bauhaus Bela Lugosi is dead was a braw tune. :)
James Forest sums it up well. Copy and keep!
I cannot say this enough times; the club they believed in never existed. It didn’t have the money it was spending. The whole thing was an illusion. They were funded by bank debt and then by tax fraud. It had been two decades since it played by the same rules as everyone else, yet those fans expected that a NewCo fresh in the world would be able to operate at that level and not only challenge us but actually overhaul us.
GORDYBHOY64 on 24TH OCTOBER 2017 12:10 AM
a wee tune before cot
https://youtu.be/US9nVBuDHhg
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unless i am being stoopidy,. is that the basis of the calum mcgregor song ?
we need a CQN list of what the current songs are based on.
stewart armstrong and enola gay, if thats true, i just did not get it at all.
off to bed,
keep it lit.
Delaneys Dunky…..yer tastes are weird….but then….am no medicated….no jealousy here ;-))
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OKRJfIPiJGY
H.H.
Saint Stivs,
dont know mate,
came across it on You Tube,
not heard it in ages
Ultimately, clubs get the fans they deserve…Celtic–greatest club in the world–Celtic fans–world’s best (99% of the time)……then there’s—nah! I’m not going to say it…you know what I mean…It’s been a painful couple of days for them…
Goodnight Tims…
TLT
Thank you.
Creep by Radiohead is my signature tune. ;)
HT,
on strict liability…..even if we supported it…..and had a solid cordon of stewards around the ground….it’d still be impossible to keep a determined nutter from breaching the cordon. As for fences….mibbe topped with barbed wire….that would do the trick….or mibbe a 15 foot deep exclusion moat.. It’s like me n my friend discussed….you can take all the precautions you want but a determined burglar will always break in….you need to make it impossible for them to escape with yer goods…..there’s yer deterrent….;-))
I’vegotnothingsensibletosayCSC
H.H.
Delaneys Dunky,
Seeing as you asked so obliquely…;-))
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lZiNtbgm9oM
FTSFA FTSPFL FTDUP
H.H.
TLT
Thank you. That was the radio sanitised version of Creep.
Much prefer the original lyrics.
Thom Yorke CSC
Jeebus….everyone’s a critic….opines me….;-))
H.H.
It’s fantastic news that Celtic fans have been voted the best in the world. Our MSM cannot bear to report it in a positive light. I’m not so happy that some are comparing us with the hordes despite the daily insistence on here that there is no “Old Firm” and that we are a stand alone club.
Let’s enjoy the moment and the recognition from everywhere outside Scotland that our club has the best fans in the world. The BBC’s report on the award is pathetic.
Celtic should have sent someone other than Bankier to accept the award, given his previous remarks.
Saint Stivs
Stuart Armstrong song is Enola Gay by OMD fae Liverpool. How can you no hear it???
Ger57
Well said. See ye soon pal.
HH
I always link this song with a tape my older sis used to play (yes a tape) when I was reading a book (yes I do read)….I was 9….it was Pet Cemetery….had no idea at the time it was the name of the plane that dropped the first hydrogen bomb in anger….things you learn ;-))
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s7LmXq-0nOc
toyouthfulignoranceCSC
H.H.
DELANEYSDUNKY 1127
ITV down here was showing the FIFA Awards.
Obviously not in Scotland,then.
Sorry for the bum steer.
Bankier ?
BANKIER ?
Aye, good yin.
Reminds me of when yon ither PLC chancer, Brian Quinn, sabotaged the presentation of the, Seville 2003 Uefa award on the Celtic Park pitch from the, Villareal supporters rep.
BQ had been outed in public about his, tunnel digging phone texts about, “Our esteemed manager”(his words) referring to the publicity about the clubs from England who coveted the services of Martin O’Neill.
BQ put himself in front of the fans, due to his bad publicity, after he’d been outed, and by doing so, he ruined the presentation, causing the fans to boo him.
And there are folk going around, who would have you believe that, self preservationist directors were, Kelly’s & White’s……aye.
Maybe these Celtic PLC executives are actually, dwarfed when the Celtic supporters are being served by a manager who has the requisite stock to hold the office of, Celtic FC team manager ?
Maybe that’s why it took, 30,000 of the best fans in the world, to empty their seats, before these PLC chancers like, Banker, etc, stopped disrespecting the best fans in the world, by cheating the fans respect, with the recruitment of a line of puppet managers, whilst the Bankiers etc, got fat drinking the gravy of the pub team environment.
Anyway,….well done Celtic supporters. Thank you, Lisbon Lion’s.
Nothing cuts deeper than, seeing tens of thousands of, innocent, well meaning, faithful Celtic supporters, being cheated by those who are {trusted} to, custodially govern Celtic FC.
Scooby Doo! pyjama comments, aren’t a dig at you, their a warning flag, from me, to you, that your being done!
That is all.
Margaret, get well soon pal. Thoughts and Prayers.
…….oot.
TLT
It’s why we sing our song for Stuart Armstrong.
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
OMD CSC
BMCUW
STV showed Gordon Ramsay documentary about cocaine. Wrong high in my world. ;)))
TLT
Stuart knows he is linked to Hiroshima in song. Great fitba song.