I got it wrong on Malky MacKay. In August I wrote, “Malky’s unforgivable sin is not racism, homophobia or anti-Semitism, these matters are often overlooked as ‘banter’, after all. He’ll not get another job because he blew millions on players who were useless to Cardiff. That’s the only kind of offence football really tales notice of.”
Then up stepped Dave Whelan, a man who is widely respected in the sports retail and football, largely for not being Mike Ashley, but who has watched his club slip from the Premier League and now sit in a relegation spot in the Championship.
Football is harsh enough without clubs creating their own distractions. Wigan and Malky are unlikely to prosper.
So Craig Whyte faces up to four weeks in jail if/when he is arrested. You have to wonder what his police interviews will reveal. Craig doesn’t strike me as someone to take a fall for anyone.
Redundancies are sometimes necessary for a company losing money and without the resources to pay bills, but Newco Rangers cutting the payroll by 10, none of them from the well paid football department, is pointless tokenism. Savings made will keep the lights on for only a few days more, so why do it?
I have some sympathy for their new management. They need to make significant cuts into football costs, but those costs are contracted to the end of the season, or beyond, these cuts are perhaps a gesture towards what’s ahead.
Management have a problem, how do they meet commitments to creditors and protect shareholder value? No bank has ever extended credit to this club, and I suspect HMRC have them on a short leash. There will be some trade creditors, but they are likely to be of the face painter variety. By far the biggest creditor, and therefore most influential after an insolvency event, is Mike Ashley. He would be in a position to appoint an administrator, and to approve any settlement.
Dave King continues to play an important role, encouraging fans not to support or spend with the club. I fully endorse his views.
King still thinks he is playing poker but his hand has been called and we all know he’s all out of aces. His rantings are not part of a coherent plan. His calls could precipitate the end, but he has no way of transforming this into a new dawn.
Remember to keep an eye on the long-term fundamentals, you cannot operate a large football club with the size of Newco’s infrastructure without regular Champions League income. Nothing that has happened in the last three years has changed this.
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Brilliant news about Broonie. Well done Celtic!
Jimmynotpaul, I didn’t know that Sam wrote a Change is gonna come after being inspired by Bob Dylan.
On Broonie, he has never and won’t be our our most skilful player but by all accounts our managers he has played for and other players love him as he is a great team mate plus a good influence on the players. . He also gives that useless git, Jamie Hammill, a hard time when we played Hearts and now he is back at Killie.
Awe Naw
Loved our tour of Germany and completely understand
your decision to live there been back many times camping
in the Black forrest and visiting all the little towns up and
down the Rhine, but family chose Oz and here i am and
love it but miss Celtic park and always will.
H.H Mick
Delighted about Scott Brown signing, when he’s no there we miss him, he is a good guy and a great Celtic captain. IMO
Ayrshire is Green and White
Jimmynotpaul….agree about langholm st…my cousin and me sold a guy q camper van to a guy from there..went into his house…nae carpets…a chair and a couch in the living room…piles of papers about two feet high all round the living room and i forgot…a GUY FAWKES sitting on the couch….creeped me right out..and i came fae possil…
VP
You and the Vogue giants out for some post match beers?
HH
CRC
Well “Broonie ” has signed a new contract.he is not the most skillfull or the most talented player to pull on our beloved “Hoops” but for commitment and desire he is up there with the best.
The player we have missed the most ,when they have not been available,is “Broonie”
Roll on the rest of the season,Ronny and Broonie,there’s a good ring to that.HH
I’m guessin’ wee davie hasn’t yet been button-holed by scoddlands finest hacks for his “reaction” to Whytey’s…..*cough*…….. predicament?
Until The Last Chic Young.
Let’s all dae the Broonie /
Delighted Broody has signed a new deal. Discussion on here a week back about what he brings to the team. Celtic TEAM definitely much poorer without him and our CL results attest to that fact.
Also a lot of talk in recent days about clubs from the second best league( after Scottish Championship) in the World sniffing around and rather than drag that out to.up.his own ante he does what a Celtic captain should do and signs. Well done broody.
On other matters. Watching European golf from Dubai and lo and behold spectator with the Celtic bumblebee away strip. Ghod bless you sir.
Only two things that can be seen from the moon, great wall of China and the bumblebee away strip.
HH
Bgx
That’s brilliant, bet it was not in November when you visited the house. Lol.
Jimmynotpaul, even though I stayed a ten minute walk from Langholm Street, I never went near it. Scary place.
When I worked in Clydebank, their equivalent of Langholm Street was Trafalgar Street as you go west into Dalmuir. It was well named as it looked like a few battles (not sea battles I know) had been fought their.
Delaney’s, the Drum has now been thrown into the mix with St Tam’s.
Its strange how history repeats itself, when the Drum was built, Catholic children had to travel to St Tam’s before St Pius was built. For the last twenty years or so, Catholic children from the Drum have been going to St Tam’s.
The new Langy has been renamed Spiers. Most mental street I know!
CRC
Was planning to mate….forgot I was picking my boy up from wedding in Hamilton Sat night.
As well going to work after game to avoid temptation of bevvy,sorry bud.
Not Ian Broody
BROOONNNIEE. Damn you… predictive text
Jobo my pick has been sent! Ladies prerogative!!
You lot are very witty ;-)
JimmynotPaul took my Dad to hospital today for his pre-op was telling me your bhoy gave him a lift up to morning mass yesterday on his way to Uni. He was singing both your praises …. My Dad is never wrong!
Great news about Broony
VP
Tell him just to crash at HT bedsit
Love
I`m very pleased that Scott Brown has signed a new contract with Celtic.
We badly miss him when he isn`t in the team – just look at the Legia and Maribor European games for example.
gearoid1998
He will be one of the Dubai Hoops guys,maybe my nephew/Godson,.HH
Again,the conspiracy theorists on here doing my nut in.Stop acting like stupid huns.The reason Mc Leod was brought in to the squad was for WGS to have a look at him.He had never watched the boy play,why would he,but he has scouts giving him reports.Personally,I have never seen the boy play,so I have no judgement,same as WGS.It is his duty as manager to explore every avenue.Maybe the boy will be a good player,especially if he leaves the huns and moves to a better level.Conspiracy to help the huns sell him?.Do me a favour.
VP
So is that our lift from West to McChuills sorted? :-)
HH
CRC
Delaney’s, I’m glad its not the other spelling of Spiers.
DD, my dread was when my ma asked me to go to the “new shops” to get a loaf or whatever…Castlemilk had a gang every fifty yards back then.
It was like Logans run getting there and back, if they couldn’t catch you the slug guns sometimes did.
Must admit, things have moved on…;)
SOAL
He’s no used to slumming it :O)
These grans fed up with sevco nonsense :-)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/these-grandmas-smoking-weed-for-the-first-time-are-wonderful-9871906.html
:-)
HH
Dallas
Trafalgar St has been cleaned up. Two friends live there. Dalmuir is trying to pick itself up. We just need more jobs for the weans. A large growing youth unemployment here.
I thought Langholm St had been put beyond viable use?
;)
VP
Your in trouble now
CRC
A couple of hundred yards …fekn walk it :O)
Awe Naw
21.21 on 20 November, 2014
Also apparently on moonbeams team
Aiden Earley and his sibling Wulstan Earley (shareholding in Worthington Group)
I see our hero has a second warrant issued today for failure to attend court to defend the Ticketus claim for £18M
Any coincidence that Broonie has signed a new 4 year contract extension on the eve of an AGM ?
#NoSoNaiveCSC
SOAL
Only if you clipe :O(
Great News about Broony. We are lucky to have his drive and his will to win.
I grew up playing on the shore fields at Caol. The council have since ruined this place.
Anyway, looking back a quite a talented group of boys with some excellent ba’ players. Several went and had trials and one or two made the grade.
One of the group was a Donald Park who was a tenacious, never give up sort of guy who run for the whole game but lacked the skill of the better players. He was a pest but what an attitude.
However this attitude got him a game for the local works side, then eventually up to Inverness where he played for Inv Caley for a couple of years. He was then signed by Hearts and had a very successful career, loved by their supporters before going onto becoming Asst Manager at Hibs.
The point I am making is that skill is not everything, Leadership, drive and a never say die attitude are also important. Broony has all of this as well as a fair bit of skill.
If we were back on the shore field at Caol and Broony was there, he would be my first pick, sorry Parkie.
VP
Text sent
Fanadpatriot
As I said god bless him AND your good self.
Love to see the hoops on display. Although pity we can’t match the dead teams 500 m world wide support.
SOAL
I’m joking of course…The Minx wouldn’t go with a ghuy who kept a durty hoose…wid she?
R…SOAL :o(
If I may be slightly critical of Broony’s comment. His last line about brining the success we deserve.
Sorry, that’s very supremacist, unless we deserve less than winning everything.
Change deserve to desire and I’m happy.
Glad you’ve signed for another four years.