I know many of us are annoyed that a Celtic player, who didn’t appeal for a foul, is not being charged for inappropriately looking for one, is headline news today. This is all a consequence of Sky Sports pundit Neil McCann’s insistence that John Guidetti cheated, while he simultaneously acknowledged Guidetti didn’t actually claim for a penalty.
TV analysis can enrich viewers’ appreciation of the game, but it has to carry a degree of responsibility too.
Those of us from Scotland will be familiar with the summertime noise of a scramble – pennies dropping all around you. It’s a wedding-day tradition, when the father of the bride throws coins into the street for kids to collect as he and the bride leave for the ceremony.
Today’s story in the Record, lifted from a fans’ group, that newco Rangers receive approximately 75p for every £10 spent with Rangers Retail, the joint-venture between the football club and Mike Ashley, must have had pennies dropping everywhere.
These figures are for last season, so predate whatever new arrangement Ashley was able to negotiate for the return of stadium naming rights. We’ve covered this point before, but it’s worth reiterating:
Football clubs are in fact a series of business units. Few make a profit over any business cycle but there are profitable business units inside every club, including retail, trackside advertising, media rights and kit deals.
Football operations almost always lose money. The considerable cost of operating a stadium, recruiting and employing footballers (and occasionally a manager on an onerous contract) isn’t met by ticket sales, even at community football level.
The club accounts detail how much financial control Ashley has over newco’s profitable revenue streams, from retail, to kit supply to trackside advertising. The true consequences of forming the with investors looking for a financial return, as newco did in 2012, should now be apparent.
If the club has a future it will have to survive pretty much on ticket sales alone. As we’ve covered before, when you need to pay circa £17m p.a. to open the doors at a club which will occasionally house 50,000 spectators, and your gate receipts and hospitality sales totalled £12.3m last season, you have a chronic problem.
Even if ticket sales doubled in value, there would still leave only around £7m to pay for football operations, a figure the likes of Kilmarnock can survive on, but you have to wonder if a ‘Rangers’ brand is viable at that level?
Does this sound like a viable football club to you? If so, let’s see how it looks after Ashley has his pound of flesh for financing the second half of the season. No wonder fans are so keen to stop him.
I see newco have appointed WH Ireland as their nominated advisers, a name you may be familiar with. Back in May 2012, Kitalba, with an astonishing degree of understatement (“It couldn’t be clearer”), noted here in the comments section the breadcrumb trail between Craig Whyte, a whole series of his companies and associates, and the aforementioned WH Ireland. It’s worth a 15 minute read.
It’s the big Glasgow derby tomorrow and Celtic sponsor Magners have offered us two premium seats in the Jock Stein Stand. All you need to do to win the seats is to email me the name of our opponents, at celticquicknews@gmail.com
Competition closes at 22:00 tonight, so check your email thereafter. Tickets can be collected from the ticket office before the game.
Planning is underway for Mary’s Meals to build a kitchen Chibwata Primary School, Dowa, Malawi, which we in the CQN community have committed to paying for. We have already built three school kitchens in Malawi this year, so I am sure we will complete this one sometime over the coming months.
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gearoid1998-thanks for that mate,the more people down south that know about the Quintisential British Club,the better.
Summtt different
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI26nW7EbMY
MWD
256%, does that mean it’s a return trip :-)
Or a tandem ? With the sleigh of goodies
Brilliant Bhud
Hail Hail, deputy to take oot noo
Embramike
Tanner would say, “The Celtic supporter Johnny Russell tried to end the career of the young Brazilian there. What do you think Neil?”
Sevco 1 Celtic 6. The penny drops http://t.co/SA8DsYfmvL
Embramike,
Was he electrocuted?? :))
Moonbeams WD. Wee Oscar’s our Bhoy and Kano’s our mhan. The Vow – Critically Rebuked by 45% of this fine nation.
20:55 on 2 December, 2014
Finalllllllllllllly :))))))
A text donate button ,I have kept rewards on my phone for you .
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Well done sis
sis = sir :))))
Liquidation is coming …….
Think I will make a wee investment by registering a new company name with the view of making a sure fire wealth of the radar profit ….
Fc RANKERS of GLESCA or
THIRD RANKERS mmmmmmm !!
This is a hard one ;)
oldtim67
20:01 on
2 December, 2014
Cosy Corner Bhoy.
Sorry but I ain’t bringing wine to the BV for drinking, I’ll be drinking it in my hotel room before I go to the Blane V.
OT
Do you have any white wine with you ,must be chilled of course.:-)
So let me get this right…..
Ashley lends Sevco £3m secured and gets £7m from merchandise?
He ain’t no daftie is he?
Paul,
I’ve just received an email confirming my donation but It looks like I’ve missed the ‘Gift Aid’ box. Is there any way to go back and fix it?
Ginger1
Bada@21.05
My pleasure.
If they only knew what a bunch of low life, cheating,fascist scumbags they attract. Having said that for some darn surf that would make them an infinitely more attractive proposition.
HH
delaneys dunky
20:59 on 2 December, 2014
Aye the half time score line DD, what about the second half :-) HH
Leftclick
Just for you. ;-)
Cowiebhoy
The return trip starts at the halfway point.
MWD said AYE
burghbhoy
21:13 on 2 December, 2014
Loaning them there own money back and taking the assets hahahahahahaha
Only sevco could strike a deal that good nice one Ashley HH
Taxi for Tommy Craig
Emailed John Paul Taylor about the Club’s position re. McCann and Taner’s outburst on Sunday. So far I have had no reply. Can anyone tell me if JPT still holds the position the Celtic website claims he has?
Burghbhoy 21:13
And remember , he’s got security on that loan as well :0)
connaire12-the club will do nothing as per,the Compliance Officer at Hampden might be better mate.Hh
Schemichel blunders. 3-1 Liverpool.
Not sure if anyone’s posted, now the club isn’t going to be able to say Sevco, but in fairness to them they have said on the official twitter feed “Glasgow Derby” which they said they would. Fair play and what a result. Broonie inspired?
Celtic Football Club @celticfc 2 hrs2 hours ago
FT RANGERS 1-6 CELTIC A stunning Glasgow derby victory for Celtic’s Development Side at Murray Park
HS
In that scenario, I would take 1 goal in the second half for Celtic. :)
Gary Lineker’s team getting beaten
3-1 now :(
B B Is that them calling us Hitler youth??
D D
Did you get any of Fannings treble yesterday??
Well done the Wee Hoops tonight on an excellent result.
Delighted that the Captain was there – that’ll have given them a lift.
Scott Brown has grown into his responsibilities and I am well pleased he is involved in coaching the wee us.
All good tonight, warm glow. Only…
… I want to call Murray Park Murray Park. This Auchenhowie film-flam strikes me as a pre-emptive scuffing-under-the-carpet distancing exercise.
They were shouting Murray Park from the rooftops when they built it, in their triumphalist years, magnified of course my the megaphones of the Scottish sporting press.
Now that the net is closing, I don’t see a reason to call it anything other than… Murray Park. Named after Sir David Murray.
Reap what you sow, Huns.
With ole Santa dustin’ off the sleigh if any bhoy is lookin’ for a book to fill his well earned stocking then ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’ is just about the best book I’ve read all year.
pod i
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At 7 pm on 22rd May I was all packed and ready to head off the next morning to go to Angola and my work on the rig, I sat down, picked up the TV remote and noticed my left fingers were twitching, then my left arm, then my left leg. I called to my wife, who was in the same room as me, and then the seizure really kicked in and I knew no more. 15 seconds from fingers twitching to total unconsciousness. I woke up briefly 40 minutes later being carried into the ambulance and then through to Aberdeen hospital. And that is how quickly my illness and problems started. 15 seconds!
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At first Different Medications and mixes of them were tried to stop the seizures but then the seizures became more drug resistant. You are only supposed to be on 2 medications for seizures, I soon maxed them out. I currently am on 4 at the maximum level plus the 2 rescue emergency medications, basically to help reboot the brain.
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Modren pre-emptive scuffing-under-the-carpet distancing exercise is rubbish.
Martim1980
21:26 on
2 December, 2014
Why isn’t the club able to call them Sevco?
Jude
Have avoided the horses since taking a doing fae the fat bookie on Saturday. Missed them, my mate said a big price treble. Wee Fanning has won me a load more than he’s lost me.
lymmbhoy
21:34 on
2 December, 2014
Donation sent.
D D
Been there. 9/1 shot today for him.
connaire12 @ 21:21
I emailed JP yesterday and today about a number of issues, including McCann, and received responses in good time.
According to JP, ” the panelist in question appears to hold strong views when it comes to Celtic players “, and the matter has been passed over to the PR department to address – been a number of unhappy bhoys onto the club.
delaneys dunky
21:28 on 2 December, 2014
I like your thinking hehe HH
I have telt yooz for more than a couple of years that Cowdenbeath would come into the equation, never wavered from that, never will >}
Found this interesting.
The Count @oisin71 25m25 minutes ago
You know the way Sevco used to get 75p for every £10 spent on merchandise, well they don’t get that anymore. Nada. Zilch. Zero. Nothing.
The Count @oisin71 · 21m 21 minutes ago
Offering up the £1 deal for the remaining 7.5p in the £ deal. But hey, the Stadium name is safe, right? ……Right? #TheSantaClause
HH
connaire12
21:21 on
2 December, 2014
Emailed John Paul Taylor about the Club’s position re. McCann and Taner’s outburst on Sunday. So far I have had no reply. Can anyone tell me if JPT still holds the position the Celtic website claims he has?
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He does and he will respond,
I imagine Celtic are considering their position before replying. Football politics at play.