I’ve said for a while that very few people realise the enormity of what happened in Scottish football in 2012. Some thought there would be a three-year blip before ‘normality’ was restored. Until very recently prevailing perception is that the current ‘abnormal’ circumstances may last 10 years. The old normal isn’t coming back.
When I talked about how few people realised the permanent consequences of Rangers liquidation on the Scottish football to my brother, he was of the view that the penny wouldn’t drop until Newco were in their second season in the Premiership.
They had all the excuses in the world when they were in the lower leagues, and a genuinely good excuse during their first season in the top flight, but when things don’t improve in the second season, a retrenchment will start.
By then it will be evident that the legendary gap below Celtic is huge, that Newco are effectively cannon fodder, that their fans are a cash cow topping up the coffers of every club they visit (including Celtic), but that no matter what they pay for their season tickets, Newco will always be underfunded.
Season ticket sales at current levels are not sustainable to watch a team fail so miserably. Even this miserable team is not sustainable with the current business model. The retrenchment will be real and painful. Questions are now being asked about how they get themselves out of this mess (16 years too late). There will be no answer.
They will win the odd game against Celtic, and pick up a cup occasionally (if Ross County can do it anyone can), but Newco will only win the league if Celtic get their big move. Many football fans in Scotland will live the rest of their lives only seeing Celtic win the league. Just think of that for a moment. Buying your losers ticket each season will be a painful business. Some will find other things to occupy themselves with.
The real question that should be asked, is how sustainable is a Rangers club that’s as much chance of winning the title as St Johnstone? The answer will be evident by this time next season.
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I’ve been wondering whether Warburtons mathematical gymnastics are insane ramblings or whether Celtic losing 4 and Sevco winning an extra game was their hypothesis after the league fixtures were ‘randomly generated’?
Did they think that we might lose to Aberdeen, Hearts and St Johnstone – maybe entertaining the hope that they might beat us at Ibrox?
Was 10 points behind in January the best outcome they ever really anticipated?
Taking the gulli-billies for a ride yet again….
tontine tim
Magic! Well at least I had the band right!
What is they say about the 1970’s, if you can remember them you were never really there.
Keevins said he watched the game on TV wednesday night (Celtic V Sheep) WONDER how he managed that ?
CTV “LIVE” for oversea’s viewers ONLY.
Burgas
So he did, didn’t think anything about it, but now that you mention it, sausages r us :-)
HH
lol …………..BUFFFFFFFERING…………………..FREEEEEEEEZES………………………….STOPPPPPPPPS
POP-UPPPPPPPPPS ETC ETC .
Just back in Glasgow.
As I was driving up to Brizzle Airport I was listening to Jeremy Vine on Radio 2 who had a young Scottish couple on who were recounting there awful experience of having a stillborn child (I have first hand experience of this awful event).
They mentioned the SiMBA Ambassador whom they felt had helped them immensely and spoke so highly of her and how she helped them cope with this awful event – Lisa Hague. Another credit to humanity and of course our beloved club. It was quite an emotional story.
I am posting the following link for information and not as a request for donations as I know how much people give on this Blog
http://www.simbacharity.org.uk/about-us/lola-commons-fund/
Pog 7.13
Glad you had a safe journey, enjoy the rain :-)
Lisa is a pretty special woman, like her good man am delighted the likes of them are representative of my Celtic both off definitely on the park with Kris
Good luck with the Walsall :-)
Nat Know@ 3:21
Yes the very mhan HH
Evening Celts
Anyone notice Kellyanne Conway’s inaguration outfit?
HH
GFTB,
Thanks mate, the flight was a dawdle despite the wind, it was the bus journey to Glasgow that was more dangerous! My flight happened to arrive about the same time as the Belfast flight. Sitting on the bus surrounded by dead people and the one in front of me with his “sevco ‘Til I die” wristband when my mate Niall decides to phone me to see if I want to go to the rugby tomorrow. Suddenly the air was filled with my ringtone ”The Celtic Song” – funnily enough they all kept quiet – MIND THE GAP :-))
Evening All.
A mad mentally busy week ends with me running out to toast my niece’s 18th Birthday.
So for the moment two things first:
Tickets for the Nir Bitton signed shirt — being blunt by one for Jaysus Sake if you can spare £19:67 for the benefit of starving weans and needy souls!
http://www.ebid.net/uk/for-sale/matchworn-signed-celtic-shirt-with-celtic-charity-foundation-logo-nir-bitton-153619704.htm
Second:
We approach ever closer to A day — A standing for Analysis.
Analysis — proper business analysis is not spin, it is not hype, it is not farting into the wind on a blog and perpetually predicting the outcome of court cases and what might happen, could happen, or even maybe happened — past tense.
A day, is when it becomes glaringly clear that flushes have been busted and that there will and cannot be a return what many thought was the norm but never really was.
The Quayside court case tells us that what was supposedly normal banking practice for a whole host of people really was a criminal enterprise. Anyone who thinks that this case and the people involved stand alone, acted in isolation and were in any way unique are fans of Hans Christian and the Brothers Grimm.
While I am not keen on Paul’s article saying that only Celtic will win the league in the forseeable future ( and I am not keen because no one knows for sure what is round the corner and because proper sport is meant to throw up surprises ) let there be no doubt that for twenty years Scottish Football witnessed, got used to, became immune to and was dominated by a bloated imposter of a Football Club that did not, could not and should not have existed within the proper rules of football governance.
The existence, the discovery, uncovering and fall from grace of the bloated imposter cannot and will not be swept under the carpet or forgotten about no matter how many wish it were so.
Stand by yer bunks and be prepared to be Janus who both looked forward and back. Look forward to Celtic under Rodgers and the Celtic that is being built at the moment. Look back and understand that there should never have been any commercial partnerships with a business entity that was sham from top to bottom, living on floating credit, massaged accounts, false financials in any real sense of the word and ran by people who admitted that they avoided transparency and disclosure for fear of being sanctioned lest footballing authorities disapproved and punished them for their business practices.
That was and is the reality. The declared champions of Scotland over a prolonged period deliberately and willfully covered up what they were about and who they were about it with.
You will note that in the Quayside case that none of the people involved have ever been sanctioned, sued or pursued by anyone at The Bank of Scotland.
Ask yourself why that should be?
However, when they were uncovered and pursued by the police and the DPP HBOS threw them to the wind — luxury yachts and all.
Proper football Governance complete with transparency and accountability would have avoided all of that and Celtic should be in the vanguard calling for such Governance. To an extent they are but when the time comes they must kick the door in and rather than request it politely they must demand it vehemently.
And as has been pointed out before, investing in proper football management and players is the one sure way of putting bums on seats and increasing revenue.
I am pleased we are doing that these days as all other strategies have proven to be second class and produced second class results.
Look back, learn, don’t repeat the mistakes — and look forward!
The A day cometh.
BURGAS HOOPS on 3RD FEBRUARY 2017 6:55 PM
I live in Dennistoun and can watch all games live, home or away. It’s simple to do.
VPN.
KTF
VFR800 IS NOW A MONSTER 821 on 3RD FEBRUARY 2017 7:43 PM
Is it legal?
Jmccormick
Just left my dads house (after an Equis special fish) and he is asking about for a couple of tickets
If he gets any luck I’ll put it on the blog
BT
two bits of Fish?
BT.
Much appreciated but another lurker CD has just sorted us for tickets. The lhad is bouncing!
You have good taste in fish restaurants as well.
Hail! Hail!
POG 7.36
I could imagine, a few stories from a few years back where their hatred was frightening, we live in good times,……
Wristbands & sashes…… They don’t have much else :-)
(actually they never had much)
BT 7.57
Fish on a Friday, fair play
Special fish on a Friday ? Inverted Tim snobbery :-)
Evening Ghuys
You already know about the amazing work CQN does for the Walk With Shay campaign and none more so than our very own CQN weather reporter( not forecaster mind!), Jobo, but if you want to have a wee listen to what the campaign is about then click on this amazing podcast from The Colonial Podcast.
Advance warning: Get 2 beers out and ready, as it goes on for 45 mins:-)
https://www.spreaker.com/user/homebhoys/the-colonial-podcast-charity-extra-episo
Please also get your picks in for Goals for Shay so Jobo can have a peaceful nights sleep :-)
HH
CRC
Soal
Of course
JMac
No worries
Gerry
Indeed. Pinky sticking up with my vino tinto
Still waiting on 8 picks for GOALS FOR SHAY week 4. I’ll give till nearer 10 before I name and shame ;-)
CRC – Ha ha, timing is everything. Aff oot……….
FRANNYB67 on 3RD FEBRUARY 2017 7:19 PM
Nat Know@ 3:21
Yes the very mhan HH
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Live in the same street. Some mhan indeed. As well as being a class footballer, he was a geius with numbers/maths. My mum still in regular contact with Rita – who just moved from Shawhead to sheltered housing. Amazing guy. Lovely family.
BT 8.09
Put in for a wee days annual leave the day for gold cup (St Paddys on a Friday) might be in your neck of the woods depending on how much money my Blantir mate has left, as he is off the whole week, I would need a lottery win to take that week off in March
Plenty of my acquaintances in the brig always lift their pinky when on the tonto
(I was a thunderbirds bhoy)
Warbomath:
“You need at least 3 EBT’s a trophy. So 21 trophies that’s 117 EBT’s and what’s it officially? 53 EBT’s?Go figure!. I think we need some EBT’s. You gotta do what it takes. For every fiver that’ll be £16.90”
Good evening fellow Tims.
I don’t post often, preferring to lurk.
The reason for posting this evening is to recruit new players for the cqn weekly 5 a side game.
A number of CQN luminaries, as well as lurkers, have been playing a Thursday evening game in the south side of Glasgow for the past few years.
We are a friendly ( at least off the pitch) , sociable and hospitable bunch who are very welcoming to new players( even to the token sevconite in the squad).
If anyone is considering giving it a go but are thinking I’m not fit enough, I’m not good enough, its been years since I played, come along and you will soon realise that you will fit right in.
Cost is £6 per game which allows us to run up some excess funds which go towards a couple of nights out per year.
So if you are interested email me at cqnfives@gmail.com
HH
My wee bro is 40 today and I was going to take him to an Everton match to celebrate.
Today he tells me he reckons we might well win the league on March 12 and would love to attend the match v Soft Loans Co.
Big ask I know, but if anyone can help I’m looking for three tickets – they don’t need to be together.
TIA
Good Evening.
Here is something new about a very bizarre press conference…
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2017/02/03/sevcos-dream-signing/
Looking to swap 6 Iceberg Lettuce for 2 tickets for Sunday
Love
since RC has not yet shown up for work, how about I get us started with a bit of soulful dance stuff ….
Because I’m Me by the Avalanches …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu0KsZ_MVBc
Nat Know
You will probably know my cousin from shawhead Big Alex :0))))) HH
TSOAL
There have never been 6iceberg lettuce sold , ever, in Wishy.
MIT
Great Band but love Frontier Psychiatrist
JMCCORMICK
The Madras Cottage have now Kebabs with nae salad on their menus
This is the tip of things to come
Hello again all you young rebels.
Another big day for us Antipodean Celts coming up, our Social
Celts Mornington are having a 50th anniversary evening on the
3rd June at the Marketta lounge in Main St Mornington same
place we had our Willie Wallace tribute, anybody who would
like to be there ( who wouldn’t ) ok ( a hun ) the cost for a three
course meal and entertainment is $ 65 p.p please get booked
early as it will be a sellout again.
Contact the Social Celts Mornington for any other info, it’s gonna
be a blast.
A wee question for any southern hemisphere residents who may
lurk on the blog, me and the princess are taking a trip round
Tasmania in a couple of weeks on one of those big boats, it will
visit Hobart and some other little towns etc now the question is
are there any Celtic pubs /clubs thereabouts ? i’d be surprised if
there’s not.
H.H Mick
FRANNYB67 on 3RD FEBRUARY 2017 8:48 PM
Nat Know
You will probably know my cousin from shawhead Big Alex :0))))) HH
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Think I do mate. Best not mention any surnames! :-)))
TSoAL …. You have good taste in music, so I’m not surprised to hear you are a fan! Some of their stuff is a bit out there for me … but when they are good (like that song, or Since I Left you …. they are amazing!)… and the video (not my favourite medium, usually) for SILY … one of my all time favourites! Love the dancing! Makes me happy every time I see it!
Hi Bhoys
Friday night is music night here’s 3 classics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBw0HTtOD98
Free Alright Now (all time favourite song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0ffIJ7ZO4U
Dire Straits Sultans of Swing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL0Vwqm1rGc
David Bowie Hang Onto Yourself
ENJOY
KEEP THE FAITH