Fair play to Newco, a 3-0 win after a 2-0 defeat is an achievement. Anyone who thinks this season will be easy has not been paying attention. Whatever they do in the Champions League playoff round, they will arrive at Celtic Park three weeks on Saturday battle ready.
The circa £5m they earned last night will go towards supporting their structural deficit for the coming season, pending the outcome of their tie against PSV. There is real opportunity, or jeopardy, in those games.
Celtic have to consider whether they are ready to overcome the challenge. Despite early season good form and a manager who delivered spectacularly last season, it is far from clear we are. Newco changed manager mid-term, suffered a midseason wobble, but finished strong, arguably the strongest.
We await to competitively deploy Alexandro Bernabei, Moritz Jenz may, or may not, be used when Carl Stafelt is fit and we are yet to find out what Aaron Mooy can deliver. In short, we can only offer an aspirational opinion on whether our first choice 11 is stronger than last term, or we simply have more cover.
It is reassuring that we continue to be linked with quality players. If our business this month is close to as effective as last August’s, you will enjoy 3 September.
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the exiled tim
Not greed so much as surplus value. Paul67 posted a leader recently on the relative prices of replica shirts, actually it pertained more to RIFC product but he also stated that Celtic FC earn only £5-10 per adult shirt sold. No idea if those figures are correct but Paul is closer to the Board than I will ever be so might be. Now given that these tops market for £65 – £75, and are produced in sweatshops in developing economies, one the mark up for our sponsor Adidas is outrageous, and two there is little scope for Celtic FC to reduce retail prices. And no real incentive for Adidas to do so if the above prices represent the market rate for famous clubs. Not sure if there are good replica replicas out there, used to be.
Still never seen a game that Steve McManaman couldn’t make worse.
Couple of quick quiz questions.
Celtic have played 6 ties in the last 16 of the CL (2008,2009 and 2013
1) Name the 6 players who played in 4 of those 6 ties
2) 5 of these 10 players saw game time in these last 16 ties- Select the correct 5 from
Paul Caddis
Andreas Hinkel
Craig Beattie
Bobo Balde
Tony Watt
Maciej Zurawski
Lassad Nouioui
Anthony Stokes
Massimo Donati
Thomas Rogne
Answers at 10.15pm
Hot Smoked on 10th August 2022 9:28 pm
SCULLYBHOY on 10TH AUGUST 2022 7:23 PM
I am pretty sure I am in that photo (The guy in the bright yellow top).If it is 106, I am definitely in it !!
I meant to ask before. How come those photo`s are so incredibly sharp ? They are brilliant.
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Happy Daze! I just search and copy the photo link – no great genius involved – unfortunately.
PRESTONPANS BHOYS on 10TH AUGUST 2022 9:21 PM
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I’ve already emailed P67 about individuals they need to monitor. You can easily extrapolate a posters comments for any day and have a look at it contents. Its not rocket science🗼🚀🚀
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They would grass thur granny’s so they would! :)
Ah didny mean it honest CSC 👀
Kevj
Why have you assumed you were one of them😱
Easy win for Real Madrid who hadn’t beaten Eintracht since they did in 1962 at Hamdump.
Spanish champions verse ninth in the Bundesliga as you would expect a gulf in class, be good to get them in the CL.
Note to Paul67, Sevco lost to Malmo Red Star Braga Leipzig and Eintracht in their ‘wonderful’ Euro ‘run’
PRESTONPANS BHOYS on 10TH AUGUST 2022 9:21 PM
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I’ve already emailed P67 about individuals they need to monitor. You can easily extrapolate a posters comments for any day and have a look at it contents. Its not rocket science🗼🚀🚀🚀
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This is unbelievable and potentially sinister. Reeks of witchfinder general or modern day North Korea
Let the people sing.
HH.
C40 @ 9.13
We surely have a political class that are not a tribe of one club golfers?
A political class that can walk and chew gum at the same time …
Cost of living crisis — follow the money.
All this low rent analysis spewing out a figure for 5 months time.
It is just attention seeking to scare the plebs fartless.
The cost of living crisis is just manufactured inflation by the parts of the economy that watch with greedy eyes at the 20% of the economy where shortages / supply chain flaws are pushing up the cost of a product or service.
Big Auto is making 85% of its capacity and getting 99% of the list price.
Sure beats working — 95% of production at 75% of list.
That plus the demand bubble for certain stuff after lockdown.
When the majority saw that — they started to scheme / game the market anyway they could.
Add in Ukraine with Russia squeezing the gas pips till they squeaked.
It is all a game that everyone wants to play.
The food sector kept us fed through CoViD — now they want their cut.
They saw how other sectors were making a killing and so now they have went all in.
Two major supermarket chains owned by private equity — they can’t believe their luck.
OK- picked the wrong time to set a quiz
The 6 players who started 4 games in 2007 and 2008 were Boruc, McManus, Naylor, Naka, McGeady and JVOH
The 6 surprising players who had some game time in those 6 ties were Caddis, Craig Beattie, Tony Watt, Lassad Nouioui and Masimo Donati.
Other names that surprised me were Son, Kayla and Matthews
Kayla not Kayla
Sftb
Sorry got five of you six, McManus being the omission but was a wee bit distracted
PRESTONPANS BHOYS on 10TH AUGUST 2022 10:05 PM
Kevj
Why have you assumed you were one of them😱
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Yet another head rented out freely, to KEVJUNGLE?
I’ll tell you as well in case you missed me putting SFTB straight.
I’m not KEVJUNLE, and I do not know the whereabouts of him.
KEVJUNGLE seems to live rent free in SFTB head, and know it looks like he’s living in your head as well.
You call me KEVJUNGLE, when my name is, 442 PARK THE BUS.
You, and SFTB, have got KEVJUNGLE issues, and that is your look out, not mine, yours and SFTB.
I assumed you were getting at me, because when I post a comment, several times you have immediately appeared on here, agitating for “certain” posters IP Addresses to be blocked.
You don’t have the courage to name who`s IP Address that you demand to be blocked, so it then becomes a guessing game.
I didn’t know whether I was included on the list of undesirable names to have their IP Address blocked, so I guessed because you appeared soon after I had posted.
PRESTONPANS BHOYS on 10TH AUGUST 2022 10:05 PM
Kevj
Why have you assumed you were one of them
One??
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C40 @ 9.13
Work the numbers — follow the money.
Energy price cap — average house / so much leccy/ so much gas — was £1100’ish.
Shot up to something around £2000 — pretty tough going.
Now it is being talked up in the media to something like £3800 / £4200.
That is just noise to control the crowd — scare the plebs fartless so that they will accept the previously unacceptable.
The energy industry has form for working / gaming the energy markets.
When times are tough they game each other.
When times are good they game the public.
Work the numbers — where is the money going?
25Mill households at £4K = £100bill instead of £25bill — £75bill is on the move to somewhere — even the stupid Tories are going to spot the money flowing out of our reach.
Dancing in the streets of Riyadh and Moscow should give the game away.
So just where is this money going — every last penny?
What is the wholesale price for electricity?
Where are the pits when you need them?
NS gas was always considered too good for power stations.
Until Maggie got stupid and the electric companies got greedy.
Premium fuel source ruined / wasted in less that 30 years.
Finally — no-one has mentioned CFD’s — contracts for difference.
Mainly renewable revenue support plans — if the market cost is below the CFD strike price then the supplier gets support / if the market price is above then the supplier gives the money back — not sure exactly to whom but they give it back to someone.
Could be the market / the electricity pricing pool / the government.
That is the way these contracts were supposed to work.
If under closer scrutiny they become heads I win / tails you lose the “we” have been royally screwed.
Not good — could get nasty.
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Kevvi from rebbi to craven sash loving unionist
your transition from rebel to “Britain First” quoting unionist is complete,your tongue,velcro like is licking
full felch,youv had enough so rich tea biscuits
Your transition from kevvi to Cathy I think you have issues with.guess it’s not going well.hahaha
Keep your tenner kev ,I will put £42 to it and get you to CP.if ye wish..
You stopped goin,noo yir just angry at yirself and life,
Kevj
I’ve never asked for anyone to be blocked that’s up to P67. I said above, he should monitor individuals and consider their postings and take the appropriate action, its his blog not mine or the mods.
For the record I normally scroll by your moniker(s) however when I do stumble unintentionally on one, they give me a good laugh, been laughing for nearly a decade now😱😂😂
GLENDALYSTONSILS on 10TH AUGUST 2022 10:29 PM
PRESTONPANS BHOYS on 10TH AUGUST 2022 10:05 PM
Kevj
Why have you assumed you were one of them
One??
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KEVJUNGLE issues for you as well GLEN?
Maybe you need to get out more :)
KEVJUNGLE was amazing on here, the night that he resigned from here because whisle blowing the £49 – 2016 oldfirm ticket fraud was not allowed, was a story that should be told round the fireside and passed down through the ages, “the bhoy who sussed out the PLC ticket fraud”, that even so called investigative journalists won’t touch?
Even to this very day, Celtic supporters agitating for the banning of someone who holds different views?
Celtic supporters?
My Auld Granny’s Shawl CSC
PRESTONPANS BHOYS on 10TH AUGUST 2022 9:02 PM
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10TH AUGUST 2022 8:57 PM
SCULLYBHOY on 10TH AUGUST 2022 7:23 PM
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Hot smoked defo you 🤣🤣
Top pic
HH
Login again
PRESTONPANS BHOYS on 10TH AUGUST 2022 10:42 PM
Kevj
I’ve never asked for anyone to be blocked that’s up to P67. I said above, he should monitor individuals and consider their postings and take the appropriate action, its his blog not mine or the mods.
For the record I normally scroll by your moniker(s) however when I do stumble unintentionally on one, they give me a good laugh, been laughing for nearly a decade now😱😂😂
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KEVJUNGLE issues again eh lol.
If you write to administrator’s requiring that certain posters be monitored, why would you do that?
Maybe you should be careful who rub up against in your wee get togethers in the beer garden?
There’s another Celtic blog where anything that goes a decibel above sweety wife level posts, is deemed dangerous, undesirable, and recommended for IP Address to be blocked?
Not my scene, but hey ho.
hh
Kevj et al
Take care, you don’t bother me and you have Celtic at heart
HH👍
AN TEARMANN on 10TH AUGUST 2022 10:37 PM
Kevvi from rebbi to craven sash loving unionist
your transition from rebel to “Britain First” quoting unionist is complete,your tongue,velcro like is licking
full felch,youv had enough so rich tea biscuits
Your transition from kevvi to Cathy I think you have issues with.guess it’s not going well.hahaha
Keep your tenner kev ,I will put £42 to it and get you to CP.if ye wish..
You stopped goin,noo yir just angry at yirself and life,
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Haven’t a clue what any of that is about(surely you don’t hate English that much?)
Who stopped going where, and who is angry??
And who is Cathy?
Deary me! 🤨
Kevvi the ex rebbi now wears crimplene
Sentinel Celts don’t stand for any of your crap They don’t put up with your shoit
Different site with differing security standards.
I won’t have a good Celt dug by this freak.
ldfjldsjfl
Paul67
See what happens when you are no blind to the threat that The Darnel pose.
The most biased and blind call you a soup taker .
Too many ex Celtic players who have become pundits ,get slaughtered by our support when they praise The Darnel or criticise The Celtic.
Your assessment is a fair one .
The Darnel are now neck & neck with us domestically ,and ahead of us in European performances .
Our manager needs to have a plan B for Europe.
TT
AN TEARMANN on 10TH AUGUST 2022 11:21 PM
Kevvi the ex rebbi now wears crimplene
Sentinel Celts don’t stand for any of your crap They don’t put up with your shoit
Different site with differing security standards.
I won’t have a good Celt dug by this freak.
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SC = Boring, diversionary, cliquish, waste of time, trusted the Celtic Trust even after they were mugged by David Lowe, MAHE says we should stop talking about Celtic PLC oldfirm collusion since 2012, and stick to talking about the team on the pitch, in other words – move on?!
BMCW hates the PLC but rips his tights if someone suggests boycotting season tickets to sack the oldfirm board, BMCW saying it would destroy the club, it would financially drain the toothless pro oldfirm board, and their share price meaning PLC failed and would have to resign for pissing off their customer base, or be citizens arrested off the premises, BMCW either stands against the PLC, or lives on his knees sucking a pro oldfirm PLC, to try to have it both ways, as BMCW seems to try to do is either, dishonest, or deceitful, or cowardly fence sitting??
Can’t be both.
Anybody who points this out, either, THE LIONS ROAR, or, KEVJUNGLE, are painted as disrupting the blog, or causing a bad atmosphere, and their posts immediately deleted??
A few weeks ago THE LIONS ROAR, was on SC, and BMCW, didn’t appear on his own blog for the entire weekend, saying he left his phone at work?
As you do!
What can be discussed in an echo chamber?
The worlds in a dangerous place but your not allowed to discuss it on there, in case the conversation leads to politics?
Celtic were born out of political genocide, which the “bent” curriculum spins as a famine?
SC Blog is read by 7,000 people every day BMCW says?
Really, where are they all?
If BIG PACKY 1, or JIM THE TIM53, have to go out for the shopping, there’s 2 – 3 hours between posts?
7,000?
“WHERE ARE THEY?….LETS BE HAVING YOU!” said the wee Norwhich wummin :)
Something has gone on and I seem to have been forwarded to a hoax site. I lurk a lot and post occasionally when it comes to Celtic and history. I don’t know what all this crap in the last couple of days has to do with either of these two issues. I have to wonder if there are no other avenues (sites) for these pseudo political discussions to be aired.
In the meantime I look forward to the input on Saturday and Sunday..
LetstalkCeltic CSC
Not neck and neck with us.Runners up to us.
We have 40 million already banked.Which position is best?.
Whomepanicnever.CSC
TINYTIM on 10TH AUGUST 2022 11:52 PM
Our manager needs a Plan A for Europe. There didn’t seem to be any defensive plan last season.
Cheers,
Ronnie
MADMITCH on 10TH AUGUST 2022 10:32 PM
I can’t agree with a word of that, it makes for uncomfortable reading and makes my head hurt
Keep it coming