‘Starve your club of money until I get what I want’ is just about the measure of Glib and Shameless’ statement yesterday. No one at the SFA, SPFL, the Glasgow City Council, the Co-op/Vatican Bank or Celtic could do as much damage to the Fledgling Rangers as Dave King’s pronouncement.
These people have taken so many wrong turns in this episode it is like they are being operated by a compulsive Karmic puppeteer. There is a time for withholding ticket sales, Celtic fans did it 20 years ago next month, but Celtic fans had a plan, grassroots support, investors on hand, unencumbered by Fit and Proper concerns, or the law against directors of a liquidated business working in a company using the same or similar name.
Most importantly the Celtic ‘old board’ included some, like Kevin Kelly, who was committed to change, while even the hold-outs were died-in-the-wool Celtic men, if clearly misguided. None of the decision makers would ever consider razing the stadium.
Fledgling Rangers are at the mercy of hedge funds, some spivs and a couple of ‘Rangers’ men, who must be increasingly frustrated at the attempts of others to usurp what they legitimately bought and paid for.
Before stepping off the ledge – and make no mistake, stopping fans from buying season tickets is the only way to kill not just a club, but any successor clubs – you need to be sure you are in a position to cut a deal, and that you have the cash to make it all possible. If you don’t have a watertight plan, you are working towards the end of your football club and its dilapidated remains.
I would be utterly amazed if the Easdales or Laxey Partners submit to this Glib and Shameless series of demands. If they do, I have seriously misread them.
King was on the oldco board when they walked slowly to the gallows, all for the want of the kind of money he now says is needed to make Newco competitive with Celtic. His chance to bang the populist drum and raise some cash was in the years before the club, stadium, stock and bike were sold for a combined total of £1.
It makes you wonder if there is a plan to march the entire club, and all its symbolism, into the sea, before picking up the driftwood after another liquidation. For a fan of the club that would be horrendous, but think of the rich pickings available to whoever can grab the assets.
This is high stakes poker, but those forcing the issue don’t have any skin in the game. Even if the whole thing is washed away in the storms, they will avoid most of the blame.
Delighted to read Fergus McCann on the club site this morning:
“I am very proud when I see Celtic’s progress, its status in Scotland, and its worldwide reputation. Especially when I see the great work of Celtic FC Foundation carrying on the legacy of Brother Walfrid.”
Despite the perspective that the events of 2012 gave us I still meet people who just don’t get what he did for Celtic. No football fan is under any obligation to worry about their club’s finances but the man at the top is, and when our top man wore a bunnet, our transformation was outstanding.
There is a little over two weeks to go before the CQteN St Patrick’s Night Dinner on Friday, 14 March, at the Kerrydale Suite, Celtic Park. The beneficiary of the night will be Kholoni Primary School, Malawi, where we will fund Mary’s Meals to build a kitchen for 1200 kids who currently don’t have meal facilities.
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Take a look at the front and back of the hats. To order, email hatfrompat@celticquicknews.co.uk with name, whether you are attending CQteN and address if not, and I’ll get your message to Pat.
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The values Rangers Football Club is famous for, and proud to honour, include professionalism, integrity and honesty……
Is Frankie Boyle writing their statements now.?
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon, supporting WEE OSCAR..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
20:37 on
27 February, 2014
ryecatcher
20:31 on 27 February, 2014
You are joking, aren’t you ……. Anyone can fall out with anyone at any time about anything
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naw they canny
Feeling sorry for them now.
How much more can they take!
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No, but really it’s a wee shame.
ryecatcher
Paul played 15 times in season 96-97 the Bhoy was clearly unfit and hurting,not surprised
he didn’t last another season.
eldiegobhoy
20:24 on 27 February, 2014
Absolutely…..and if it ever came to it, the SPFA would not be able to defend declaring ming a fit and proper person…..there is far too much evidence to the contrary, even within their own rules / definition…..interesting weeks ahead…….(also, I think he was waiting to buy them out of administration, but then realised wallis and his cronies were not including aministration in their plans, so he can’t get them on the cheap, so he is going to try to get the hoardes to buy the carcass for him )
doc is neil lennon
20:46 on 27 February, 2014
Bless them ….hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha…..well, maybe not…. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahanahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Scrap that unfit …dodgy knee or not he would still run rings roon CRC and HT at 5s
Following the bold statement from graham wallace ANOTHER fans group, Fans United in Defence of Sevco, has sprung up tonight.
The F.U.D.S. are expected to gather at their mouth watering all-non-premiership-cup-tie V Albion Rovers.
saint stivs
20:41 on 27 February, 2014
A kin
Voguepunter…
I know he didn’t play much but all he was looking for was a one year extension on the same terms.
In hindsight that might not have been good as we might not have spent on the players that stopped 10.
It’s just that when you think of his loyalty and to get slapped on the face like that must have hurt.
My favourite extract is:
“….foolhardy to seek additional investment without a clear plan of how to use it”
Why not just pocket it like everyone else?
burghbhoy
20:39 on 27 February, 2014
Problem I have with that is i’ve got hedges in my back garden
What would happen if the deid huns go out and start looking for funnin any hedges ?.
Re the Wallace statement…….
I find it amazing that they still don’t even know their own name, let alone that they would need 120 days to review the infrastructure,not of a multi national, but something akin to a pub team. Yet the bears and SMSM obediently follow.
RFC, I stupidly thought, were no more. They were either THE RFC or RIFCL, from a plc perspective.
See that Kafflick education I had. Just shows how little I know and remember. My oul’ teachers would be cross with me that I was so confused.
Anyway, let’s enjoy the chaos.
Not saying violence is the answer…but I would love to throttle that Townsend.
Oscar
I received that email and signed the petition an hour or so ago. Since then, another 20,000 + signatures have been added. I also left a message saying that even those who admired Thatcher must surely accept that naming a Bank holiday after her would be divisive in the extreme. I would hope many more people sign.
JJ
!!bada bing!!
20:41 on 27 February, 2014
They didnae say that, did they,,,?……jeekers
Thank the Lord for Fergus McCann.
Adi_dassler
Word of advice mate, put up fences, get rid of hedges or u may be in the front line of a brutal Hun rampage!!
Be safe buddy!!
Billy Bhoy
I would consider ‘Fans United in Defence of Sevco’ to be their umbrella group.
All FUDS together.
.. a working week would have been sufficient for Wally to look under the bonnet.
Panto.
Second half of the Spurs game could be interesting….ITV
Of oot to fun hedges & burn them
You are Paul McStay’s agent and I claim my £5!
Yer having a laugh mate!
McStay was totally knackered and would have hardly kicked another ball for us but you think we should have paid him top dollar !
It strikes me that McStay and Burns were putting their personal agendas ahead of our club
Given that these two guys had been paid a substantial amount by the club over the years and not been very successful -it was poor form to then run to the MSM -namely Keevins – and give him ammunition to further attack our club. All the more so at a time when we were struggling to stop the Huns doing 10 in a row
Both men did very well out of CFC IMHO
HH
italiabhoy
20:54 on 27 February, 2014
Thank the Lord for Fergus McCann.
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And The Lord replied,
“And thank you Celtic for Tommy Burns!”
;-)
will this Huntertainment never stop? my poor weeribs cfc …. braw
JJ
the more that sign, the more these tory toffs will realise how out of touch they are with reality!!
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/margaret-thatcher-day
please take the time to look at this and sign the petition if you disagree?
We often depict ourselves as a UEFA level team rather than a CL team and I think we half-expect that we could recreate our 2003 run or get close to it.
Well, Ajax who beat us to this tournament after finishing 3rd in our group, have just lost 6:1 on aggregate in the first UEFA tie they faced. The winning team Red Bull Salzburg have won all 10 UEFA Cup games they have played, 5 ties home and away. They are quite an impressive outfit.
Billy bhoy-VG
Croppybhoy
Now this place has been going down the shite hole for quite some time so I probably shouldn’t be surprised by anything I read on here now.
However, this…..
“It strikes me that McStay and Burns were putting their personal agendas ahead of our club”
is up there with the most stupid comments ever posted on CQN.
Take a bow son.
Omg…..could this Bhoy play?
► 7:55► 7:55
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vry20TZAnE
3 Sep 2010 – Uploaded by Hail Hail Monthehoops
Paul McStay – the Maestro – from the SBL dvd release ‘Proud to be a Celt’. … Celtic wonder goal v Rangers by colin whytock 80,634 views.
oscar positive thoughts unionbearbhind
20:17 on 27 February, 2014
Went to sign the petition, then it says that, if I send it, some Group will send me emails…..not acceptable, I’m afraid
67heaven-aye couldnae mark their necks wi a blow torch
Re King-as ever when the huns break the rules ,it’s the rules that are wrong and need to be re-written.
VP you’re right obviously you’ve seen those lads playing football :-) hope you are keeping well.
HT
I didn’t know we were handing out awards for the most stupid statement ever on CQN.
You know how competitive I can be about these things :-)
But but..we are still the people…. Right?
Right?
!!bada bing!!
21:05 on 27 February, 2014
Correctimundo
Ryecatcher have celtic ever really done loyalty its all one way imo. Sutton, Jackie come to mind!
Oscar positive thoughts unionbearBhind
Petition signed mate
Hail Hail