If you’ve not been following the work being done in your name in Malawi this week, do so here. 20 people arrived from Scotland early this week on behalf of the Celtic Foundation to renovate six centres which feed children ages five and under. They are also building a latrine (pretty sure this is a toilet) at one of the centres.
It’s another remarkable testament to the ethos of Celtic 127 years after the project started.
The Foundation are in Malawi with Mary’s Meals, the remarkable Scottish charity which is feeding hundreds of thousands of the world’s poorest children each day. By careful management of costs, utilisation of volunteers and ‘vocational’ staff, a remarkably high 93% of their revenue reaches those in need on the ground.
Really good to read Callum McGregor speaking to Celtic media. Not that he had anything particularly illuminating to say, but he was speaking after putting in a training session, confirming his return to fitness.
With the injury to James Forrest, Callum was one of the few bright lights in our early season form, opening the scoring in three consecutive European away games. He even shone in the inept Murryfield performance against Legia.
At the Hearts game last month I overheard someone suggest Callum needed a rest. His form had definitely dipped, which is not uncommon after young players sparkly when first breaking into the team. If he stayed fit there’s little chance he would have been rested for any of the recent games, such has been the form of those around him, so maybe his recent illness came at the right time.
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While I’m on……..
I have been of the opinion that our manager is hopeless and the job is too big for him, as a supporter when that decision is reached it’s time to move on and stop/ reverse the downward spiral……… But ……..:>)
If you are clear in you’re head that a new manager is required, then the search for that elusive Jock Stein type continues…….. It’ll be a long time and the money isnae there to pave the way ( not that JS needed a lot).
So where my head is right now is that the the PLC Celtica, may have got it right, the only way to compete with the billionaire teams (if you don’t have it) is to produce you’re own talent, at some point ( if we keep the faith ) the players with the right management/ coaching staff will start to turn things around.
I now believe that 100% support of the manager is the way to go, if we don’t keep the faith with him then it’s back to the drawing board and there is no dosh for a Martin O’Neil type manager.
Have a think and get behind our manager ✊
God bless all Celts (thumbs)
Vinny
HT
Sorry you can’t make it today would have been good to catch up
BT
Text ye!
HT
;-)
HH jamesgang
Record FC Hearts: It’s hard to have sympathy for Rangers in the face of such sheer and unbridled idiocy
10 October 2014 11:09 AM By Eddie Nisbet
EDDIE looks at the different approaches taken at Tynecastle and Ibrox in recent seasons and says that Rangers have no one to blame but themselves for their financial problems.
SNS Group
“On top of this, we have been blessed enough to have a gifted young manager at the helm able to assemble a talented, hungry squad of players capable of tearing to shreds anyone foolish enough to stand before us.”
WHEN you live outwith your means, spend money that isn’t yours and generally approach a spreadsheet with all the grace and poise of a three-legged giraffe, eventually there will come an inevitable collision between excrement and fan, or something like that.
We Hearts fans are well too aware of this fact of life and can be relieved that the triumvirate of Budge, Levein and Neilson have come together to cut our cloth accordingly and set out a footballing business strategy that puts the stability and long term health of the club to the forefront of their priorities.
On top of this, we have been blessed enough to have a gifted young manager at the helm able to assemble a talented, hungry squad of players capable of tearing to shreds anyone foolish enough to stand before us.
Lesson learned; progress made; future secured.
Down the M8, however, you will find a remarkably different story unravelling just in time for pantomime season.
If I didn’t despise Rangers quite so much, I would find the litany of financial horror stories and boardroom bitchfights emerging from Ibrox infuriating, slapping my forehead in incredulity at how the same mistakes could be repeated so soon after their ignominious extinction.
As it stands, the latest news that laughing stock Mike Ashley is attempting to block a £16m bailout from Dave King (a man who pleaded guilty to 41 tax-related criminal charges) in order to protect his own blood-sucking interests only serves to amuse me.
Why? Because the powers that be at Ibrox have entirely brought this upon themselves, showing a wanton disregard for financial discretion and, what’s more, complete contempt for their fans.
Anyone could have seen that the sensible thing to do in the aftermath of their financial collapse would be to utilise Murray Park: build a young team, peppered with a couple of inexpensive, seasoned veterans, and plough through the part-time postmen and sparkies in the lower echelons of Scottish football, being as frugal as the quality of opposition would allow.
Nah, sounds boring: let’s amass an overpaid squad capable of easily finishing second in the top flight, squander season ticket money, sell our stadium naming rights for £1, let our youth academy gather dust and sit back as the club implodes in on us again. Top marks, boys.
Sympathy for Rangers is hard to muster in the face of such sheer and unbridled idiocy.
In their haste to return to their ‘rightful’ place at the summit of Scottish football they have neglected the notion of sustainability and now lie at the mercy of the next magnanimous benefactor to pull them from the fire with a bailout.
There’s an argument that Rangers have fallen prey to business vultures seeking to disembowel the club for financial gain, with only a cursory interest in footballing concerns, and there are genuine Rangers fans out there that are hurting and I feel for them. It soon passes, though.
These brief moments of reflection do, however, put into context how fortunate we have been since our own judgement day.
Steven Pressley was quoted in the media this week describing Hearts’ recent stoicism as a step back in order to make serious progress in the years ahed, comparing it to the success Borussia Dortmund are enjoying after years in the footballing wilderness.
The keystone to their success has been a heavy reliance on their youth academy since flirting with financial ruin and while it took over a decade for them to return to Europe’s top table, no one could now question the shrewdness of their model.
For Hearts, much more modest achievements could be considered a triumph over financial adversity, first things first: winning the title and an instant return to the Premiership.
After that we can worry about re-entering Europe and attempting to topple Celtic’s monopoly of our game.
HT
CharmerCSC :)))))
Always a shame to see some family infighting
Martybhoy
It would mate but my prior engagement has been in the diary for about 6 months.
No doubt we’ll catch up soon enough, be good and enjoy.
Leftclicktic
MOI?! :-)
gordybhoy64.
I’ve bet it to win,but if I can get a bigger price at Musselburgh I’ll do it EW,I hope I’m right,the ground that it made up that day impressed me. best of luck.
Till later all
Chores to do :))))
Vmhan your see to infer that bringing in ronny was a great master stroke and part of a bigger plan for celtic.
But in reality ronny as manager was the third choice.
So what does that say about strategy?
Furthermore we should ask some fundamental questions. What is the purpose of celtic football club? Shouldn’t it be to win football games?
And hopefully to win with style?
But instead we have Moneyball. The focus on Moneyball isn’t really about winning (in fact the experiment failed in that respect). It’s simply about making money from transfers.
Throw in the approach of selling all our best players as soon as we get a bid then you have to ask yourself this.
How do you expect a young experienced manager, who, let’s be frank, talks nonsense and doesn’t seem to follow up his word with actions or deeds, manage and build a team when he doesnt make decisions on buying players and will have players continually sold regardless of what he thinks.
Those who run celtic are treating us like idiots. Nothing at celtic makes sense. They say one thing and do another, they have plenty of money but don’t invest and sell as soon as they can. The have brought in a rookie manager who is demonstrably clueless as to what to do.
Quite apart from treating the supporters in a disgraceful way and then telling us that the hun not being around cost us around 10 M a year. Which is patently absurd.
Just what strategy is it you are holding onto.
CFCS not PLC and starve them out.
Richie.
Have you made a decision yet.
I to have to miss todays get together as I’m off to Dunoon for the weekend with the wife and grandkids. We have a static caravan at Hunters Quay and apparently this weekend was arranged ages ago, the wife is staying on for a few days as the kids are off school next week.
I hope you all have a great day out today and if any of you end up in Bar67 watch out for the wee wumin behind the bar as she’ll put you out for the most trival reason, whether your sober or not ;)
Eddie
that remins me about the ladt one, I was sober as I turned up after work, someone was tapping the bar tothe music and she told them to stop..
I retreated from the bar before I said anything that would prevent my further visits to said boozer..
afternoon all….are there any HongKong bhoys /Ghirlies out there ?….am planning a surprise 50 th for the other half …need a place to fit 7 for 2weeks …around the 8k ….not till september 2016 …but the 7 P,s and all that ….
have a braw day … :)
S ay what you like about ibrox being riddled with asbestos ,one thing i noticed this morning when the Scotland team were training on the pitch, i was impressed how all round the stadia looked nice. so whoever looks after all the ad hordes is doing a good job.As for my own stadia ,Celtic Park its nothing compaired to Ibrox, who if anyone looks after that side of things has to address it, Thats what annoys me regarding Dermot Desmond he isnt around much to oversee these things, and were i sit in the front of the main stand, the toilets are a disgrace, the food kiosk is no bigger than a Telephone Box,goodness knows what like they are up in the main, and i dont think the stadium has had clean down painting etc , since Fergus redeveloped Celtic Park, So Paul if you dont mind ,could you ask if the stadium is going to get a facelift thanks.
Unfortunately I will not get to the day oot,Mrs Nye has put
her foot down,I was allowed oot to play last night and I’m
not getting any younger apparently….hiv a guid yin.
pussywhippedCSC.
Morning All,
For those intending to head up to K Park for the Scottish Cup 2nd round replay between EKFC and Spartans, please note that it’s a 2pm (TWO O’CLOCK) kick off.
Belter of a tie last week which finished 3-3, and if this one’s half as good it’ll be a cracker.
£6 at the gate, £3 concessions.
G72 Bhoys will be reporting for duty around half two. I expect this bhoy to feature with some choons:
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HH
NYE
Tell her I was kidding about having to work as a serving wench-PC67’s missus has already volunteered for that!
timbhoy2
11:31 on 11 October, 2014
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Pmsl I’ve just spat most of my pint all over the place ya crazy mofo ye.
Great laugh, but a terrible waste of good drink none the less.
:(
Hope all the bhoys going to the piss up have a great time, I envy ye the craic but not the sore heads tomorrow. Unfortunately, I just can’t do it any more, 4 or 5 pints now and I’m full, I’m reduced to drinking wine or some other sissy drink, like Baileys & Ice.
cantbedonewithallthepissinandsickheadcsc.
neganon2
11:19 on 11 October, 2014
Vmhan your see to infer that bringing in ronny was a great master stroke and part of a bigger plan for celtic……….”
……………
It does look like that as I read back lol
To be clear I’m an ex Jungle bhoy and ex ST in 111, the plc strangely enough are not friends of the GB, must be politics or summit?
Neg, the plc won’t spend any money,
They continue to downsize apace,
They care not a jot for the ordinary supporter IMO.
But, I think it’s our only option given what we have, there is no super duper manager out there, it’s the strategy of bringing the youth through that will eventually, and that’s the rub, provide progress.
In summary the strategy for the future Celtic fitba team is sound, it will be painfull At first, but the overall Business strategy of our hopefully temporary plc is a failed one.
How can they justify the down sizing of our support, it’s almost as if there are are masons on the board, wouldn’t surprise me.
Hx2
Neg
I’m sorry not to have met you at the cqn 10 bash, next time and KTF amigo!
V
Getting in the mood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=FJt4y4fH938
I’m a man you don’t meet every day
The Pogues
HH
Cheers
✊
connaire12
11:55 on 11 October, 2014
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Hoooooops
✊
No worries Vmhan. Take care.
NegAnon2 writes
“But instead we have Moneyball. The focus on Moneyball isn’t really about winning (in fact the experiment failed in that respect). It’s simply about making money from transfers.”
The primary idea behind Moneyball IS winning. It’s exactly that.
As practiced by the Oakland Athleltlics’ front office,
it was a strategy used to compete against monied teams
like the Yankee’s.
It’s about hiring people who can help your team win, it has nothing
to do with making money from transfers.
It has nothing to do with how much talent costs, it’s about hiring people
who can help you win.
I believe it was the high price of mediocrity that Oakland team
baulked at. So they found another way to evaluate players.
And the ones they thought could help them win
just happened to be much less expensive than most others.
And this they believed, allowed them to be much more competitive
with the big money teams.
So, yes Celtic may be using the Moneyball strategy but I think your
definition is inaccurate.
T
Connaire12
Get your number off cqn asap..
EmailPaul
Celticquicknews@gmail.com
Vmhan someone with a decent track record in manage,met would suffice. Ronny just talks nonsense I’m afraid.
As for the PLC something needs to change. The support are leaving in droves (me included).
Horshoe bar is heevin!
Connaire
Hope your recovery continues sir.
Ps I’d get your number deleted though!
Posted this last night while a wee but tipsy…still makes sense to me sober….
21:39 on 10 October, 2014
We are a poor team in a poor league
Run by a poor board
With a poor manager
And have poor players
We have a great support
And a great stadium
With a great balance sheet
The way I see it…
Kikinthenakas
Bhoys enjoy the day oot….off for a day on the swally in Stirling..
Kikinthenakas
BT -You have mail,hope it opens
PeteC
If you’re looking in, it’s a 2pm KO today.
Celts
I’ve asked Paul to delete C’s post,
V