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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neganon2
11:19 on 11 October, 2014
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.
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I’ve seen you write that before, but it’s not true. Now, or the first time you said it.
The focus is on trying to get quality talent in without unsustainable outlay. We cannot match the spend of clubs in the big media markets
Morning Timland from a cooler hun free mountain valley.
NA2
Ronny doesn’t talk rubbish IMO, he talks like a forward thinking coach should do, accepted, as yet he hasn’t put those words into action, but I lay the blame firmly at the door of the PLC for not backing him.
He is attempting to lay foundations for the future, this will not happen in a few short weeks, it may well take many months.
This is the raod the suits have decided to go down, they will not deviate, just like their buy cheap buy dear policy.
Their vision is flawed, has been for some time.
But to call for RD’s head is a waste of time, he needs time, he needs players in that will fit his vision.
You are calling for the head of the wrong man.
Guys like you would have got rid of Jock after a few bad results in the begining.
I am far from defending the suits, but the coach will be going nowhere, so he needs backed from the support at least, cos the suits won’t back him.
Also you call him an experianced manager, then a rookie in the same couple of lines, which is it ?
HH
KDC then tell me why do get these players in and sell them as soon as we can?
It’s quite frankly all rubbish designed to pretend there is a strategy when there isn’t one.
Lots of Lols reading back at the jokes last night.did I miss the horsey naps?
neganon2
12:04 on 11 October, 2014
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).
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I do think a sea change is required at the top, I hope for a more Celtic/ supporter type to purchase enough shares to make a difference…… But lol
The football strategy of bringing the youth through is sound, I don’t think we have the balls for it as a support, we need success, it’s what we are and in truth what I want/ demand.
I think we need to look at the long game, it’s a tough one and a wee bit like the independence debate, have Faith and we will overcome ( smiley windup)
V
TET it isn’t about a poor bad results. It’s the clueless performances, abject substitutions and then the nonsense he spouts in the press.
I agree he has been given a very poor hand by the PLC ( who hasn’t). He is simply their latest patsy.
He isn’t good enough.
Sadly I agree that the PLC will continue on their downward spiral.
We should stay away until they realise we have had enough of their mistakes.
Good Morning.
As we approach the AGM of Celtic PLC it strikes me that the lack of concentration and focus on just one word strikes at the route of all that is wrong with that particular company.
The word concerned is CLUB.
A club, no matter how one chooses to define it legally ( and I will not bother going into that argument for the moment at least ) is something that people choose to join, attend, socialise in and about, and generally participate in.
This is true of any kind of club — from a sewing bee to an old fashioned private members club and includes everything in between.
It has long been clear to any follower of Celtic Football Club that the club has always been, and must always be, about more than just football- though football of as good a quality as we can manage must always be the fulcrum of our endeavours.
At the current time, the quality of the football, and the football progress, is not of the best for whatever reason, and the speculation on those reasons is not the subject of this post.
However, beyond the actual football, what are the board of Celtic PLC doing to further that feeling of “club”?
The answer, in my humble opinion, is not nearly enough.
Oh I know that at the AGM we will see a nice enough video about winning league titles and the importance of the fans and the new Celtic way and all of that, but to be honest that is not nearly enough to meet what the fans see as the traditional standard and stance of the club.
Whether you look at this from a purely romantic standpoint or a hard headed business and accounts point of view, the PLC is missing something and that is the Celtic life beyond football.
Today will see a host of CQN’ers organise and transport themselves for a purely social occasion to crack jokes, have a chat, moan and groan, celebrate and commiserate the success or otherwise of various horses and generally just to socialise with one an another. A certain bar owner will gain a handsome financial benefit.
Up and down the country, Celtic Supporters Clubs do the same. For example tonight is the 25th Anniversary of the Tyneside No 1 CSC and they are having a dinner where guests of honour will be Mr & Mrs Billy McNeill, Mr & Mrs Willie McStay and various others. Again, any dinner has a financial element to it, but Tyneside have made it clear that this is a celebration not a fund raiser or a money spinner. It is a social gathering in the name of Celtic.
Today, Barcelona Football Club came out and stated that it was in favour of and supported independence for Catalonia. In so doing it risked a degree of wrath from the Spanish Government and the Spanish FA.
However, all the club was doing was expressing a political or social opinion — nothing more, nothing less. It will not be closed down as a result, or forced to sell its best players or reduce its ticket prices or whatever.
However, what it has done is take a lead or even just a stand on non footballing matters. It has not abandoned football as its main industry or focus, but it has addressed a non footballing issue.
We live in a time where the Celtic Charity Foundation do more for the local community in and around Celtic Park than at any time since the days of Brother Walfrid. Yet whilst the club and the foundation do a lot to promote this fact, in my opinion it is not given the true shoulder to the wheel treatment it deserves.
We do live in a time of foodbanks, abject poverty, declining social amenities, greater child poverty and illness, and a greater sense of social injustice for many.
All of that is not the main focus of a football club, but it is a set of factors that cannot be ignored even from a pure business point of view. When the football is poor the charity arm suffers because people are not engaged with “the club” as opposed to the football team. While the two are clearly linked, there should be emphasis on the difference between the two.
I have no idea what the non executive directors of the PLC bring to the table in the running of the club, but what I do know is that unlike other companies Celtic PLC do not change their non execs very often though they should only stay in situ for a period of 3 years before being replaced by others with new thinking and potentially different approaches.
If Celtic, the football club, take on social stances, organise non footballing events and generally engage with the fans and just shout out why most of us have always been proud to be Celtic fans as opposed to football fans, then strangely enough revenue from Celtic merchandise and general commerce will increase because we, the fans, will have greater engagement in and with the club.
That is just straightforward business sense — ask the man who owns McChuills!
At CQ10 we played the video for the Malawi kitchens and BJ Mac suggested that we tie it to a message by way of a soundtrack — what have you done today to make you feel proud?
Well, on this October morning I ask the same thing of those who run our club: What have you done today to make US feel proud?
The answer does not have to be football related.
The US concerned do not have to be shareholders, season ticket holders, badge wearers, board members, customers, or have any other label thrown at us.
In fact US could just as easily be the neutral, the supporter of another club or of no club at all.
What have you done today to make the name of CELTIC stand proud? Where the neutral or the so far uninterested is attracted to the ethos of this club and says to himself or herself ” I am going to join them or follow this club or be part of what it stands for”.
Football is key to what happens at Kerrydale Street but not as key as the people who want to feel part of things CELTIC, to stand in the name of Celtic, to do things in the name of the club and to make a difference in the name of that same club.
There is a man I work with who is now in his seventies, is retired in the main, and who is comfortable in life. I attend business meetings with him throughout the year and I know instinctively that he is going to ask a question – the same question – at every meeting.
” Very good, but is it edgy enough?”
Edgy — I have come to love his use of the word “edgy”.
To me it means radical, attractively different, beguilingly unusual and so on.
Why should Celtic Football Club not be “edgy”?
It was edgy at the very outset, had a starting history like no other, championed professionalism when it was unfashionable, blatantly broke the rules of football in terms of payments ( for good or bad ) and generally tore up the rule book.
Today, our club is very professional, very safe managerially, with balanced books and complied with regulations as one would expect from a properly run PLC corporate vehicle.
All the boxes ticked, all the rules met, all the corporate watchwords potentially satisfied.
Yet all that box ticking and account filing could be improved upon. The numbers could be better, the football results could be better, the corporate brand could be enhanced, and the business of the football club, in my opinion, could be perceived and conducted better, if only the board of that same PLC focused a bit more on just one word and one question.
The word is CLUB and we are the members.
What have you done today to make us feel proud?
Vmhan I am staying away from the referendum stuff. It was and is incredibly divisive.
We can’t buy enough shares to influence dos DD won’t let us.
Question for all of you. Have you ever felt so detached from celtic as you do now?
NA2
He will come good imo, you don’t think he will, fair enough.
In the mean time, as you know he won’t be leaving, why not support what he is trying to do ?
Also, is he a title winning rookie or not ?
HH
From all corners of the globe, Descendants of the Drowner converge on Sports Direct stores:
“Good luck to the troops who turn up today.”
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“From small acorns……..”
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“Not many here just now”
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“With three minutes to go, that’s very disappointing.”
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“Right I’m in Carlisle now, just going to find out where the SD is and be a general pain in the ar*e. Any bears in the area welcome to join or if there’s anyone there give me a wave.
If there’s specific orders then drop me a PM.”
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“At the carlisle one now no one else here”
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“Couldn’t see anyone about and not sure what I’m supposed to be doing here….
Watching from a bench just now. A bit bored to be honest”
Brogan. The club we support has lists it’s soul. It drifts without ambition or purpose.
We need to rediscover that purpose and you have described it well.
But we need regime change. Without it we will continue to diminish.
neganon2
12:23 on 11 October, 2014
I believe it’s because we’ve brought them in, they’ve proven themselves on a big stage and their heads are turned by wage offers and sign on fees that we can’t sustain so can’t match. Look at Ross mccormack or snodgras this year. Do you think they’d be value for money for us?
Would you have paid 12m and 50k a week for wanyama before he had been to us?
TET I do hope you are right but…..
As for my support, well I can’t see my season book being used for the remainder of this season. It’s not about Ronny. That’s just a symptom. II’m not propping up lawwell or DD, the corruption, the honest mistakes etc etc.
Something has to change.
Monaghan1900
That’s fair cheered me up >}
HH
KDC regardless of the excuses, that’s not building a team. It’s not even trying to build a team. Then to add insult to injury we don’t spend the money we get.
JC2, I have only just surfaced after a great sleep, auld age is creeping up on me.
My son is tall but isn’t the strongest. He got a start in that game as they only had thirteen players instead of sixteen.
I only saw the first fifteen minutes before I had to pick my daughter up. Considering the doings Westwood have given YC over the last four years, the YC boys put up a good show according to some of the other parents. Matt told my son after the game, the Westwood coach was wanting double figures.
The Westwood coach tweeted after the Milan game at Celtic Park last season, our defending was as bad as YC’s. It wasn’t meant as a joke.
My son doesn’t go to Duncanrigg like most of the Westwood under 16’s apart from Matt & Nathan. Nathan is a another ex ekyc player.
Tobagostreet. Did Oakland ever win?
And I mean win the World Series?
Brogan
Good stuff, but, and always the but……….
It’s all coming from the support, nothing in return from the top, as na2 and many others, myself included, the soul is being ripped out of the club.
HH
neganon2
12:39
I make no excuses, it’s a reality. You’re in danger of becoming blinded to reason man
THE EXILED TIM
12:39 on
11 October, 2014
Monaghan1900
That’s fair cheered me up >}
HH
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This’ll take the smile off your face. At the eleventh hour, the Grand Plan is revealed by the Descendant of the Drowner himself:
“The twist on the protest.
We are all taking items to the till, let them ring through till and bag and when asked to pay……… We offer Mr Ashley one pound.”
HH
neganon2
12:29 on 11 October, 2014
Vmhan I am staying away from the referendum stuff. It was and is incredibly divisive.
We can’t buy enough shares to influence dos DD won’t let us.
Question for all of you. Have you ever felt so detached from celtic as you do now?
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I look forward to the day we can debate Celts over a pint, you’re posts on CQN are always valid so KTF with it.
Referendum stuff lol I was at the windup, it’s a hard one for me living in England, they laugh at Scotland, we don’t deserve to be a nation and as I’m told by the English we need them to govern us, eff that!
You’re final point is …,.. Yes this is the most detached from the CFC I’ve ever felt. We all believe we are a worldwide community but we’re broke in the middle, the direction of the club by the strategically aware business plc should look at the stadium pictures of around the MON era and now.
It’s where the plc have brought my club, I look forward to a sea change in share ownership, it’s the only way forward as a football club, as a business then it’s ….. Ching Ching!
Hx2
Monaghan1900
Naw, an even bigger grin now >}
Why are these peepil not running the country, Oh wait, their masters are !!!!!
HH
For those who do not know ….
Friendly on itv 4
Brazil v Argentina
enjoy ⚽️
Post referendum post;
I’m really looking forward to watching the Scotland game, wee Gordon S, best man for the job ✊
Brogan
U have been saying this for years and like neganon gave been ridiculed by people on here. I don’t have a St anymore but it doesn’t stop me buying one for my daughter as well as all the new strips etc..we need to keep the new generation going inspire of our concerns. That is where those running the club have an emotional hold over us..
As you said. As well as in Newcastle ex players are in Rothsey and Ireland tonight representing the club. Most are men in their 70’s….
True Celtic men who continue to love the club
Monaghan1900
Mensa must seem like a four letter word to the ‘peepil’.
You always provide a laugh:)
HH
Monaghan1900
That was an LOL moment
En route to Newcastle for the Tyneside CSC dinner with the boss and ht/minx following on. Sorry to be missing Bobby’s latest Hootenanny. Have a great day out bhoys & ghirls and nae fighting!! :-)
HH
TTTT
Here we go
Hoooooooooootenannnnnnnny
Bruce Springsteen – Waitin’ on a Sunny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiCxqhu9cio
Levon Helm Ramble At The Ryman “Ophelia”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcgxuGiI7wU&feature=related
Brogan rogan
U ahould be I
Enjoy your Hootenany day Oot CQN Bhoys
I’ ll just have to put up with this 30degree heat in Grenada :-)
Hail Hail
The Exiles Tim
Can you please post up a link to you’re website, it’s getting close to Christmas and looking for wee gifts for Derryghirl.
Hx2
Wish I had went to the Forts Sports direct
to give the Zombies some french taunting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V7zbWNznbs
“No chance English bed wetting types”
RegretsCSC
BRTH
Yes I agree but the safe CEO and his board will never be edgy,to me they appear disinterested and will cut the cloth of the club in line with turnover, no matter how low this becomes ,the club is having the life choked out of it,I was with a number of people last night at a party and many were former season book holders as you know this also triggers other spending on merchandise etc, none have a desire to go and watch Celtic,at a basic level the club should do market research into why this is the case, and if the can address the issues, but no no-one from Celtic seems to see this as a start to solving this problem, they are not[the board] stupid people you wonder what they are afraid of,in my opinion there is total disconnect between the board and support, not all the support I hasten to add, but it is there and needs to be clearly defined by those who are the custodians and then addressed. It is not entirely about cost from my experience last night.
Taxi intae toon,bookies high street,e/w all the tips
See you in the boozer guys
HH
Film on 5 just started with Cesar Romerio. Need to seed if big Billy did indeed look similar..
Alex O’Henley @OHenleyAlex · 2h ago
@celticfc’s next Europa League opponents, Romanian side Astra Giurgiu, have sacked their manager Daniel Isaila.