You and I have been through a few close seasons together, so it’s no surprise we have this uncomfortable feeling as we look ahead to (hopefully) four hugely important Champions League qualifiers while contemplating how ring-rusty Celtic have looked preseason. These games really don’t matter, of course, they are there to allow us to experiment and build fitness for the real challenges ahead, but you would rather we were turning teams over 4-0 than being on the receiving end. Evidence, perhaps, that the experiments were leading somewhere.
Lots of coverage today of the fall-out from Friday’s meeting between the SFA and Sevco, some of it informed. Huge issues clearly still remain before they will be granted permission to join the SFA but they would not be helped by their prospective manager, Ally McCoist, walking away this week. Sevco have not sold many season tickets but if McCoist goes their chances of doing to will become increasingly scarce. Friday’s comment from McCoist sounded like a scene-setter for a resignation letter.
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huns season tickets, based on mine that is them being charged £335.00 to watch Elgin City, Peterhead, etc. NO CHANCE they are selling them to anybody.
Bourne
Great Expectations on iBooks? I expect it’s pretty good.
petec
If you click on the Motherwell game it has a confirmed date of 31st.
Paul 67 –
Agree – a real scene setter from Calamity. He is clearly drawing on all his experience from working in television…
bournesouprecipe (13:06): “I see that Sevco 5088 Media appear to have announced season ticket prices this morning. And sash at the turnstiles for the Brechin extravaganza.”
I’m afraid you are way wide of the mark on this one Bourne. It is actually sash at the turncoats for Brechin.
Incidentally, CQNYorkshire understands that the Sevco5088 ticket office received an enquiry this morning asking: “See they season ticket prices what ye’ve just released. Do they include the Auld Firm games?”
They still don’t get it.
What’s the odds we draw them in both main cup competitions?
SydneyTim on 23 July, 2012 at 12:59 said:
Celtic v Aberdeen, Saturday 4th August, kick off 12.45pm.
according to official website ticket sales section
roy croppie (13:24): “What’s the odds we draw them in both main cup competitions?”
1-100
Of course you realise that now that the SFA have bent over backwards, broken just about every rule in the book, delayed, delayed, delayed, bullied, threatened armageddon (the list goes on and on and on) on behalf of RFC, you will have to do the same for any other club which is having financial problems….
Any other club can legitimately demand going to the same extreme measures to keep them afloat.
And that applies, even when (oops I mean ‘if’) all your efforts come to nothing.
The SFA, the most appropriate acronym in history.
BigChipsUK
1/100 seems about right; should just pencil them in now :)
Hopefully tomorrow night we will see that nugget Whittaker getting booted up into the air by Broonie.
Havnt lurked for over a week and didn’t even know the score against Ajax. Had far more important things to attend too. Just read over yesterdays comments. Posters have been submitting similar doomsday scenarios on here for 6+ years now.
Friendlies mean nothing, been to a handful, will never attend one again except for the prospect of camaraderie at Celtic Park. In a football sense, match practice,fitness, training and experimental sessions, thats all they are.
Read comments stating that we should be going all out to win every game, no matter they being friendly or not. I think if we were getting serious injury due to going all out in a friendly, we’d be pretty pissed off.
I’ve not finished it yet but ‘The Art of Fielding’by Chad Harbach is pretty good; it will teach you a little about baseball and a lot about life.
DBBIA
Geoff Boycott said on Test Match Special yesterday that fielding practice were for big girls’ blouses.
bournesouprecipe 12:42
Ha, he is not what I had in mind, he is good at lurking though.
Daryl Murphy – The New Glen Loovens, hard to shake aff…
EN
Ole Geoff Boycott lays on the ole professional Yorkshireman turn with a trowel.
Just heard on the news that those two young girls that went missing last night were found safe and well in a derelict house.
Thank God.
if true, It’s shocking their parents let an 8 year old and 2 year old out by themselves at 8pm.
Roy Croppie, that does of course assume that they aren’t knocked out before the stage at which Celtic enter the draw.
However, imagine the shockwaves if Celtic were to match what is still probably the biggest shock result in Scottish Cup history by losing 0-1 to a third division team bearing the name Rangers!
ASonOfDan
Thanks m8. I (now) notice most of the games don’t have confirmed dates yet.
ASonOfDan on 23 July, 2012 at 13:04 said:
Sky may just be updating it….?
” Geoffrey Boycott does as much for attendance at cricket as The Boston Strangler did for door to door salesman ”
Somebody , can’t remember who -they were right
ASonOfDan on 23 July, 2012 at 12:28 said:
HJK Helsinki
They beat Schalke 2-0 in Helsinki, which sounds a warning bell for me.
myboysnowatim on 23 July, 2012 at 13:28
isolated defeats in pre season friendlies mean nothing by themselves unless a pattern starts to emerge of a team lacking the required tools to get the job done.
Remember going down to manchester during mon’s period in charge were we tore man utd a new one a few days before doing the same to ajax in amsterdam in a champs league qualifier.
you could see something special was happening in that friendly versus man utd.
i think it’s fair to say that so far nothing special is happening but that could change very quickly. it will have to or Lenny’s record in european qualifiers will leave a lot to be desired.
“The movie will begin in five moments” the mindless voice announced,
“All those unseated will await the next show”.
We filed slowly and languidly into the hall,
The auditorium was vast and silent,
as we seated and were darkened the voice continued,
“The programme for this evening is not new,you’ve seen this entertainment through and through,you’ve seen your birth,your life and death,you might recall all of the rest,did you have a good world when you died,enough to base a movie on?”
Dontbrattbakkinanger on 23 July, 2012 at 13:35 said:
That’s Sir Geoffrey to you squire!
Dontbrattbakkinanger on 23 July, 2012 at 13:35 said:
Ole Geoff Boycott lays on the ole professional Yorkshireman turn with a trowel.
Sadly, it’s no act – he really is like that. Dinosaur.
Sir Geoff of Gisborne certainly has no doubt as to his merits as a cricketer.
Foxy
The girls were apparently 11 and 8 years old – their parents must have gone through all sorts of torment
Jeg er Neil Lennon-Greeninbingley
That means they got pumped 6-1 in Germany. That says it all for me… ;)
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Kano 1000 on 23 July, 2012 at 12:34 said:
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Could never imagine reading this in an msm rag, quality or otherwise.
Well written, insightful, informative…..they just don’t do that! (well not when it’s about sevco, in Scotland)
As a few have predicted, we ain’t seen nothing yet.
Stupid huns on rangersmedia feel they have been harshly treated and calling for a parliamentary enquiry.
I hope they get it…
Sonofdan 13.59
True enough – i just get the jitters when we are regarded as favourites. I call it Neuchatel Xamax-itis….
Lennon & McMjallby
Mr. Mojo Risin’
How you doing bud?
Foxy_1888 on 23 July, 2012 at 13:45 said:
Foxy_1888,
The day before that Man U game they arrived back in the country the day before after a tour to China. I was at that game – it was a great night – but it told us nothing about either team.
A few years later Gordon Strachan’s Celtic lost 3-0 at home to Man U’s youth team & Paul Scholes only to beat them 1-0 in the CL when the actual competitive games were underway.
Pre-season friendly form is not a reliable indicator of competitive form and I wish people would stop treating it as such.
TGSC,
Sailing On….
53 days in the life of Calamity McCoist
DAY ONE
November 5: Rangers move 12 points clear of Motherwell and 15 points clear of Celtic after a 3-1 victory over Dundee United.
DAY TWO
November 6: Celtic win 2-1 at Motherwell to cut the gap to 12 points.
DAY 15
November 19: Rangers draw 0-0 at home to St Johnstone and Celtic win 2-0 at Inverness – gap cut to 10 points.
DAY 19
November 23: Celtic beat Dunfermline 2-1 to cut the gap to seven points.
DAY 22
November 26: Celtic beat St Mirren 5-0 at The Park to cut the gap to four points.
DAY 23
November 27: Rangers lose 1-0 at Kilmarnock – no change at the top.
DAY 49
December 24: Rangers lost 2-1 to St Mirren in Paisley, Celtic beat Kilmarnock 2-1 later in the afternoon – gap reduced to one point and it’s a Merry Christmas for Tims everywhere.
DAY 53
December 28: Super Joe Ledley scores the only goal in the penultimate Glasgow derby to be held at Celtic Park and Neil Lennon’s team move two points clear at the top of the table.
DBBIA – are you out on Friday 3rd evening? I am up for the Aberdeen game on the Saturday.
Gene’s a Bhoys name on 23 July, 2012 at 13:58
No doubt. It’s not normal that though is it. Two young girls going out at that time of night in the first place is it?
Spending all night a derelict house?
Doesnt add up.
Anyway main thing is they were safe and well.
Wee Sevco Rangers season ticket £258
Big Berwick Rangers season ticket £140