I heard two bits of good news today. First, and most importantly, season ticket sales have been fantastic. We’re well on track to reach target. We don’t know what next season will bring from several revenue streams, most importantly what European football will deliver, but knowing the income arriving from season tickets allows the club to make early decisions.
Specifically, a couple of hours ago we agreed terms (with player and club) for the outright purchase of a player, currently registered with an English Premier League club. He flies north tonight and will sign subject to a medical, booked for tomorrow. I understand the coaching staff are delighted at the capture as he’s been our number one priority for some time.
Tip for the day: don’t ask ‘sources close to the club’ what the consequences of today’s result at Fir Park are for us, unless you want a lecture about how:
We’re on our own……
We know we’re on our own……
We’ll stand or fall on our own merits……
We don’t need money from two derby games that we could almost match from a good run in the cups……
We need to build a successful Celtic team……
We need to pull a squad together for the qualifiers……
We need five-in-a-row……
And none of this is changed whatsoever by who else is in the Premiership. Not. An. Inch.
That’s me told. I also got the feeling no one at Celtic has any appetite to be involved in the kind of scenes we witnessed at Fir Park today. It’s not the image we have for our future. We want a successful, family club, open to all. As it has been since 1888.
Anyway, I’m sworn to secrecy on the identity of the player, but you’re smart, you’ll figure it out. Well done with the season tickets, take a bow.
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Watched a good Ayrshire girl tonight at my local festival, Eddi Reader
What a voice
Glad to have her in Kildare
Lefty
Aye, I can imagine the emergency meeting that will happen the morra, Oh how being a fly on the wall would be a gift.
Without Mash they are fecked, Gash is Gash, and I honestly expect the media to turn on him soon enoughm they have know for some time that he is a charlaten, but canny say it, they have jobs and familys to think of, so they spin the yarn, but when they get the nod, they go for the kill.
Gash has a few weeks to sort it, which he won’t, cos the hun will walk, as will the players, andthe gardeers still need their wages, I wonder who will weigh in this month……..
It will only get better mi amigo, the hilarity will reach stroke levels I reckon.
BTW
When Duncan Ferguson got the jail for feck all compared to what Moshnie done today, can we expect the same coverage that he got ?
I doubt it, seems that all these years on, money and fear rules the day, how feckin sad.
HH
Tom McGlaughlan don’t let them grind you down like yourself I have been ridiculed many times on here for what having a opinion on players management changes I would like to see in and around Celtic park I have been called a Hun many times also 1said I was mentally disturbed and other things nope they won’t get rid of me and Tom like a lot on here since you have come back from Australia I like reading your comments or opinions
Stop the bitching bhoys … Eveyonrs entitled to their opinion ..
Those calling them attention seekers .. Are exactly that ;)
Sorry if already posted….
He’s back
Everyone’s ..
At least they’ve got the energy to concentrate :)
Its like when you got the giggles in church…. Cannie stop
I’m no gonna sleep tonight
Chuffed we dont have them near us
Nighty night
Oh… An Tom, ya big pussy
Gird yer loins ;)
Timbhoy, agree with that. Tom’s common sense and fairness are an antidote to some of the paranoid drivel we get on here.
I know that some people, who don’t post, feel that the place is spoiled by its clique tendencies. Hopefully new contributors will give different opinions to the blog.
Just reading on You Tube (Yep.I know) that what kicked off the unpleasantness(hee hee ) was that Mohsni had refused to shake Erwin`s hand.
They are finished ….
Absolutely finished …. We are the only show in town ..
We are the power brokers
The end
I think Thompson saw that first goal and said to himself “Mien Gott they really are pish. Nothing I can dae here.”
Tom McLaughlin
23:56 on 31 May, 2015
Come on! I’ll dae another Broons for ye. :)
bournesouprecipe
23:17 on 31 May, 2015
:)
Oh, Fir Park in the Sun,
Steelmen 6, Sevco 1 …
TomMcLaiughlin
Ref the less than accurate statement from McCall…
The issue for me is that his statement AND the BBC story appeared to coincide in terms of his account of what he claimed to have seen and therefore on what precisely COULD speak about.
The impression was very, very clear. Reading that account and in particular his statement, it would have been reasonable for the reader to presume that he was nowhere near the situation when it all kicked off.
The reality is that he was there, and whatever he saw and claimed not to have seen was a convenience to avoid being drawn into any comment on what his man did. He was there and he saw – despite the dishonest intent of his statement.
The pictures (inadvertently?) posted with words tell a different story. McCall was close enough to know more than his statement implied that he knew.
He gets cut no slack from me on any of his duplicitous gibberish.
He then compounds his deliberate obfuscation by saying that the guy has no future at ayebrokes next season anyway, so he was not defending his own players. Mohsni was expendable for McCall but he still had to fudge so as not to impugn his employer.
He was trying to dance round the truth and the pictures show that he and the media knew that he was being less than honest.
Hope you are well on this fine day.
HH
Oh the joy, the exultation, the relief!!!!
And that’s just the Paradise lavvies.
I’m a fair way on the road to getting pashed and intend to keep going till Tuesday night.
Get it up yeez huns- from an Ayrshire Fenian.
Sentimental pish…
Oh that my dad was around to see this day!
Not a bigoted bone in his body but how he hated the Rangers.
He would have been 98
He would have been overjoyed.
He would have been down the pub with his pals.
He would have been pished (never a phrase he’d have used)
He would have been amazed.
Rest in Peace JM? Nah…party time in Heaven!
HH
bournesouprecipe
23:17 on 31 May, 2015
Mullet
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The missus:
“Well, I’m going shopping if you’re just going to sit there and laugh at a computer screen all afternoon.”
That picture saved to dig up periodically.
Greeninbingley
Big Hail Hail to yer auld man – sounds like mine used to.
Can’t agree more about the fairness the referees have shown – in fact, it was never an issue throughout the playoffs.
Perhaps the SFA have taken them as far as they can, being mindful of the spotlight being shone on footballing authorities at the moment?
A cyber pint of Samuel Smiths or Websters for your dad..Cheers
HH
Morning moonhowlers.
Haven’t fully read back but amongst the mirth generated by Sundays events I happened across this (to me) interesting little factlet.
While checking my wee local teams record against Sevco, I found the following link to none other than FF
http://www.followfollow.com/head_to_head/rangers/vs/elgin_city/index.shtml
which lists the 5 meetings in season 2012/13 and is subtitled “A complete record of competitive matches played between the two teams.” Their wording, not mine.
Hmmmmmm, said I. I’m sure I remember at least one meeting in the SC in the days when I had hair.
Lo and behold, a cursory examination of a brief history of Elgin City unearthed the following snippet:
“The following season, wins over Stenhousemuir, Burntisland and Caledonian clinched a home tie against Kilmarnock, the 10,500 attendance disappointed after a 4-1 defeat. Wins over Vale of Leithen, Forfar and Stirling Albion in the 1976-77 tourney earned City a third visit to Ibrox, with Rangers this time running out 3-0 victors in front of a poor 18,000 crowd.”
So, even FF admits they are a newco.
Now to read back
longnightshiftcsc
HH
winning captains
Thanks for the c & p of the Herald article.
I didn’t get to watch that game or indeed the aftermath or should that be after-match.
Player melee, punches, kicks, dragging away as well as walking away….jeez.
Then round three up the tunnel with 3 sent off..so that means that the officials could only name three of the many involved up the tunnel.
Round four was the pitch invasion, the stand off, the polis on the geegees…
Round four and a half was the media interviews…
Round five was an hour after this when Mohsni ran off the sevco team bus to banjo Lee Erwin again….
With flares on the pitch when Bell’s blooper went down…you have to ask the big question…
Has there been a Scottish Football game that has had so much and as much all go wrong…ever…
This was not even one of those very rare animals these days…an O** F*** match.
All on live TV…
Now if Celtic had been involved ..or god forbid Neil Lennon was in the dugout.. then we know the pictures in the SMSM would have been an apparently snarling Celtic manager and all the politicians would have been at church or at Tesco and missed it all.
On the field, in the tunnel, in the carpark, in the stands, everywhere and anywhere actually…
What a day to be a Celtic fan…a ringside seat for how the blue hordes want things to be in their new world order.
The wonderful thing is that they STILL don’t get it.
The hubris that liquidated a former club is just below the surface with all of them. Entitlement, arrogance, anger, supremacism, bitterness, denial, victimhood, narcissism…all there in spades.
The GASL has all the credibility and integrity of Moonbeams Murray, Craig Whyte and Charles Green combined – but he is the savior.
Submarine Sunday CSC (copyright of Art of War, CQN)
We had joy we had fun and reasons to hate the hun
but the joy made me come as they were beaten 6 to 1.
Sevco’s Submarine Sunday. Read all about it!!!
The joy of Six on a Sunday :-)
https://theshamrockglasgow.wordpress.com/2015/06/01/sevcos-submarine-sunday/
Well, who would have predicted that?
This guy on Ibrox Noise knew something…….
Slinky McVelvet
31 May 2015 at 09:12
Can’t wait to get at them. Certainties we are, and all set to clean up – 6 to 1 is brilliant odds for the famous Glasgow Rangers
Oh wait……
Ha, ha!
I have an appointment tomorrow at the local hospital to have some blood work done.
I may have to walk in their double doors sideways though, due to the width of my smile.
The nurses will think I’m smiling at them.
The results should be good though as they say “Laughter is the best medicine.”
Whither the cash strapped scrofulous hillbillies the day?
DONTBRATTBAKKINANGER
I think they may have moved,to The House of Pain.
Good article from James Forrest,
http://www.onfieldsofgreen.com/the-long-way-down/
Stuart McColl
6th April 2015
RANGERS ARE SO GOOD IM GETTING GOOSEBUMPS
me too Stuartie, me too……….The hairs in the back of my neck are sticking up.
Dontbrattbakkinanger
04:42 on 1 June, 2015
Whither the cash strapped scrofulous hillbillies the day?
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Exactly where they were yesterday……creek, sh1t, paddle withoot
Good Morning Timland.
Looks like we’re doing our business early.good, don’t
know much about the lhad,saw a photo online of him
and his squeeze at Glesga airport widnae mind sharing
the cost of a pram wae the young lhady.
Off tae work,I will fine tune my witty repartee in the car,
taking it to the limit,don’t want some angry hun doing a
Moshni on me and spoiling my very rugged good looks.
Have a great day cqn,I know I will.
ah cannae dae these link thingys but if ye have a wee minute go to
theshamrockglasgow.wordpress.com
and look for submarine sunday……..
good furra giggle and a gloat
They did surpass themselves yesterday.
Not easy, given the depths they’ve reached recently.
I am now worried that my ole cracked ribs will never mend.
Morning, well that was a turn up for the books, how we laughed through our obsession…! Heading to France.
Northumberland is Green and White
Hi Paul67,
Nice to see a bit of transfer business get done early – once again RD and crew showing intent. Qualification is Key.
Great result for Motherwell yesterday. Of course The Rangers coming up would have been little threat to the top half of the Premiership.
But the Circus! can you imagine what Ronny would have to deal with week in week out while he’s implementing his master plan.
Another Season to plan and build for where Celtic FC want to achieve without Smart Billy’s will suit us fine.
Hail Hail
Was out all day yesterday.
My only comment on Sevco.
It couldn’t happen to nicer people!!
Have just read through the hun / mini hun match updates.
Absolutely hilarious.
Sample………. ” That`s Boyd off now for a consolation pie.”