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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quonno
sleep WELL I know I will
HH
Speyside Lhad
The Herald article requires us to subscribe or such..
Could you copy an paste please.
Laughed at the first line about history of a dead club though :o)
GreeninBingley
He is 87 and has witnessed the Tic through thick and thin, including 67 in Lisbon. Took him 3 weeks to return, according to my aunty Bridget and his wife Phyllis, who is animated about it to this day when you get her on the subject.
Since the Huns died he has always been a cynic – ‘ach, their funny-handshake pals in the SFA’ll make sure they survive come what may’.
Tonight, he said: “They’re dead now, properly dead. They got reffed fairly in those two games and they got beat 3-1 and 3-0. I never thought I would see the day.”
I really do believe that today was the day the curtain was pulled back.
Goodbye, supremacist Huns.
Very pleased that a wonderful man like William Kelly is still with us to enjoy this moment.
ClydebankTimsCSC
HH………
braw ………….give Mr William Kelly my fondest regards ,and to his nearest and dearest ..
hail hail
braw
I posted a perfectly reasonable comment suggesting McCall might not have seen the original incident. I wasn’t abusive to anyone.
I then get accused of being “a serial attention seeker” who is “talking shite”.
I’ve had it with this blog. It’s the same couple of posters every time.
You can stick it.
Nakasammi…Unlucky With The bet Mate…Welcome To The Saturday Night.Roll of…Men who Put Their Name to it..And Haun Wringers of CQN…aw you Know who you Are….Bless….Unlike The Lovely Cherly…You Just Aint Worth It…..On And On…
Tom mclaughlin…Dont….Just Dont…Bless..
Tom McLaughlin
Only one person accused you od attention seeking and no-one agreed with him
I didnt realise who he was talking about and didnt ask
just scroll
today is not a day to feel wronged (unless your a hun and I know your not)
just enjoy the moment
HH
od attention seeking =of attention seeking
oops
HH
Boyata is yet another player plagued by historical injury problems.
Like Derk and Myokolou.
Like before I will be told not to be negative and to give the boy a chance.
TT
It’s JUNE!
It’s SUMMER!
It’s…HUN FREE!
neustadt-braw
23:55 on 31 May, 2015
Great post,
Tom McLaughlin
I hope you will hang around. I wouldn’t necessarily agree with everything you say but you sound like a guy I’d enjoy a debate over a pint with.
Tinytim- give him a chance and don’t be so negative! :-)
Just catching up with end of last article as I had to go out earlier.
CultsBhoy
18:36 on 31 May, 2015
I’ll always remember my 48th birthday.. Today!
Any cut n paste from Follow follow would be a lovely present….
Belated HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPY Birthday sir
Tom
Cool yer jets bud. I’ve never met you but will sort that out next season. I love reading your posts, whether I agree with them or not, but they never come across as being particularly insulting, to me anyhoo. KTF kiddo. :-))))
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
WeefratheTim
I thought you were away to your cot :-))
HH
Is it better to moan about no signings or better to moan about signings we DO actually make?
Bottom line is…no-one really knows if it will work out. Judge signings- if that’s your thing- when they have actually donned the Hoops!
Cot time defo now. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Night night Timland.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
WeefratheTim sleep WELL
goodnight Timland
KTF
HH
dena29
Stop dropping me in it, ya rascal. :-))))))) big hugs. Xx
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Real Rangers Man
WeefratheTim
00:17 on
1 June, 2015
dena29
Stop dropping me in it, ya rascal. :-))))))) big hugs. Xx
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
:-)))
Tom McLaughlin
23:56 on
31 May, 2015
I’ve had it with this blog. It’s the same couple of posters every time.
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Don`t do that ,mate.
I`ll be needing advice about Edinburgh later in the year.
:-)
:-)
Surley my interpretation of the Herald article was wrong ?
The bold Jar Jar Binks was on the zombie bus flipped again them went for a square go with Erwin AGAIN !
Dignity Fc the club with no SHAME !
Craigellachie10
00:09 on
1 June, 2015
neustadt-braw
23:55 on 31 May, 2015
Great post,
…………………………..
was a braw braw post from GreeninBingley …..I was merely adding my sentiments ….
what a braw day it has been ….love it
braw
rwe – herald article…
THIS is a particular chapter of Rangers’ history that could only ever have ended one way: in failure, humiliation, anger and disgrace.
The directors who laid its flimsy, dissolving foundations have long since headed off into the night, no doubt busying themselves with ‘opportunities’ at other companies at the distressed end of the market. Most of the players will now be heading for the exit door, too, and one can only guess which kind of places they may end up.
Bilel Mohsni is one of them. Should there, heaven forbid, prove to be an absence of clubs queueing up for his services, word has it there is a few quid to be made in cage fighting these days.
His left hook on Lee Erwin at full-time, infinitely more impressive than anything he has managed with a ball in Scotland, was the perfect sign-off to this most appalling of campaigns for the Glasgow club, an organisation that has found itself infested with people who never had any right to be there and lacking any kind of standards whatsoever.
Charging off the team bus to try and get at Erwin again outside Fir Park a full hour after the final whistle just serves as further evidence of a club that has lost its way completely.
The shambles of the past four years has left them facing another season in the SPFL Championship. It is a complete disaster for a business in desperate need of meaningful income and should not be dressed up any other way.
Rangers is a club which somehow managed to burn its way through a figure in excess of £70m during a wholly undignified period spent trawling around the lower reaches of Scottish football. Plenty of people got rich over the course of that time and many of them were floundering around in blue on the pitch at Fir Park yesterday.
Rangers, never let it be forgotten, completed this God-awful campaign with easily the second largest wage bill in the game. That this is the best they were capable of getting for that degree of investment, whilst completely ignoring every other element of the footballing infrastructure, deserves an investigation of FIFA proportions in itself.
All the chickens certainly came home to roost over 180 minutes against a Motherwell team that could barely buy a win over the latter half of the season. Rangers were fortunate to get away with a 3-1 defeat in the opening leg at Ibrox and fell apart completely during a quite shameful afternoon in Lanarkshire.
The nature of the goal that killed off any last, remaining hope of an ill-deserved promotion – a shot from Marvin Johnson in the 52nd minute that spun off Marius Zaliukas and was dealt with by Cammy Bell in the way a drunk man might flap at a seagull homing in on his sausage supper – was fitting. It was, like almost everything else at Ibrox, messy and embarrassing.
Someone threw a flare onto the park in the immediate aftermath. Away supporters who had infiltrated the Main Stand made for the exits, becoming involved in heated arguments with the Motherwell fans around them. Their faces were arguably redder than the smoke bomb and had almost as much steam coming off them.
Stuart McCall, who did his best with the broken and disjointed collection of players inherited from Ally McCoist and Kenny McDowall, could do little on the touchline other than listen to the locals, people with whom he once shared a special bond, chanting: “You’re getting sacked in the morning”. How things have changed since the days he charged around the Rangers midfield on the way to winning a ninth consecutive championship.
Rangers have dragged so many people down, though. Kris Boyd is the perfect example. In an act that reeked of desperation, he was handed a rare start and did little of note before being replaced by Nicky Clark on 59 minutes.
For all that, Rangers offered even less when he was sitting in the dug-out, stumbling around like an injured bull waiting for a matador to brandish the knife and end the misery.
Rather like an afternoon in the bullring, we ended up with some horses on the pitch as well. After Mohsni had gone into the kind of meltdown he has long threatened, the Motherwell support staged a pitch invasion and had to be returned to their pens with the aid of mounted police.
It was a surreal and ludicrous way to end what has been a surreal and ludicrous “journey” for Rangers, at least.
There is a new board in place now, of course. There will soon be a new team. It is difficult to offer any positives to them other than to say they will all have to go some to make things worse.
The Slosh
The Boomtown Rats sang “I Don’t Like Mondays”, a sentiment I imagine most would agree with most of the time, but sometimes, not often BUT SOMETIMES, I really like them, and sometimes, even less rarely, I REALLY REALLY LIKE THEM … :o)
Oidhche mhath
That herald article is very good, and no subscription required to read it.. Can’t copy and paste from phone but my favourite line was the one describing Cammy Bell as like’ a drunk flapping at a seagull that’s trying to steal his sausage supper’
:)
https://www.facebook.com/CelticFC/posts/972208682819037:0
keeping the faith
“The nature of the goal that killed off any last, remaining hope of an ill-deserved promotion – a shot from Marvin Johnson in the 52nd minute that spun off Marius Zaliukas and was dealt with by Cammy Bell in the way a drunk man might flap at a seagull homing in on his sausage supper – was fitting. It was, like almost everything else at Ibrox, messy and embarrassing.”
Nom nom nom!
Thanks winning captains for the c&p
lubo of the lamp
00:26 on
1 June, 2015
The Boomtown Rats sang “I Don’t Like Mondays”, a sentiment I imagine most would agree with most of the time, but sometimes, not often BUT SOMETIMES, I really like them, and sometimes, even less rarely, I REALLY REALLY LIKE THEM … :o)
Oidhche mhath
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They also sang “It’s a Rat Trap, Billy – and you’ve been caught!” Prophetic? I’d like to think so… ;-)
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.
Really??
How come U18’s who have faithfully followed the club these last rangers-free 3 years were going to be excluded from the fixture next season unless they paid a further payment on top of the cost of their season ticket?
Who ever came up with this scheme is not a true Celtic man.
That Herald article was slightly amusing. I still won’t buy it or give them click-throughs. And anyway – I’ve had my fill of entertainment for the day. :-))
Baw-baws. Need to be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed for tomorrow’s work-based hun worrying…
Has the GASL not jetted in yet ???
Ah Well at least The Journey is still ongoing ;)
Blootered, couldn’t help it, it’s been all too much, the hilarity, the journey has been wonderful.
Can they surpass it, I do believe they can, and will.
HH
Flippppppppin heck it’s Monday, i started laughing a 4:30pm on Sunday:)))))))))))))))
How time flies when your enjoying yourself.
67Heaven .. CHALLENGING THE LIE ..I am wee Oscar…… Ipox belongs to the creditors
Thank you for your input on here ,Hail Hail & goodnight all
THE EXILED TIM
someone said to me earlier
“stand back and watch the upcoming implosion shortly, when they realise the G&S liar has been spinning them a yarn”