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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The Good Ship Celtica. on 23 July, 2012 at 14:06
Cant disagree with any of that. All valid points.
Only, I didnt like the balance of our team last season. They didnt gel well enough for me and that made for as many highs as it did lows.
Looks like it will be more of the same this season.due to having to cut our cloth which must be disappointing for Lenny. No doubt he would have wanted to take us fwd. No money, no honey.
Oh well. So be it.
The path to following Celtic is rarely smooth.
Prior goes at the Oval, game on !!!
Tom the LeedsTim- could be; we arrive in Leeds around teatime, go to hotel, get something to eat and hit the bright lights.
Have you got my e-mail address?
“We don’t just want to win this cup. We want to make neutrals glad we won it ”
Jock Stein before the 1967 European Cup Final
‘We don’t just want this [Ramsden’s ]Cup. We want to make naturists glad we won it’
-Ally Mccoist before the Ramsden’s Cup final, after announcing Sevco’s sponsorship by Health and Eficiency Magazine.
Celtic still splashing the cash
Bloemfontein Celtic spokesman Sello Nduna says the club aim to make two more signings by next week.
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Phunya Sele Sele, who finished eighth in the PSL last term, have already recruited Kurt Lentjies, Dominic Isaacs, John Arwuah, Siyabonga Nontshinga, Auguston Leonard, Limbikani Mzava, Joel Mogorosi and Dino Visser ahead of the coming campaign.
“We are still going to announce two more acquisitions either this week or next week. We want to beef up all the departments,” Nduna told Celtic’s official website.
“As Bloemfontein Celtic management we didn’t rest during the off-season while other clubs were enjoying the break. We sat around the table and strategised for next season.
“We are determined to contest for everything on offer when the PSL season starts. We feel that we have been letting down our fans for not winning something for them.
“Judging by the kind of support they give the club, we believe that they deserve more than a top eight finish at the end of the season. We want to put a smile on their faces by winning a silverware.
“Our supporters have sacrificed a lot for the club in the past and they continue to do so. They spend their hard-earned money to follow the club wherever it plays, not only in Bloemfontein or Botshabelo but throughout the country.
“However, they don’t get good returns in terms of winning trophies for them. We want to reward them for their unconditional support and loyalty,” concluded Nduna.
Celtic are currently preparing for a pre-season tournament at Botshabelo Stadium on Saturday, which includes Free State Stars, Roses United and Blackburn Rovers.
DBBIA – no mate. You can get me at tomtheleedstim@gmail.com
TheGreenManalishi(WithTheTwoProngedCrown) – did you get my email? I managed to work out how to change the password on the gmail account and dropped you a message.
It seems that Super Pally is morphing into mendacityman….
Friday brings another deadline. Curious word ‘deadline’. It has a finality about it that should render its use, well… Final.
Future historians may well argue over what we are currently witnessing…
Death by a thousand cuts?
Controlled demolition?
Or both peppered with damage limitation?
Whether their newco survives or not, the consequences of this will not be clear for years. It will be a long time before the dust settles. I hold the view that it is an opportunity for Scottish football to flourish. I am optimistic.
What should be immediately clear to all, is that this whole episode, essentially, is a revealing glimpse into the way our banking system operates, and who it benefits. It is a local story rooted in the global story of our times…..The unbridled power of banks, and their relationship with the public. It could be argued that the bank managers have also morphed from super pally to mendacityman.
Roll on the future…
TheGreenManalishi
More like game over!
England are Salmon and Trout
Steinreignedsupreme
But we only won it because rangers went into administration…
Ole Morten Rasmusssen’s forgot how to Huddle?
http://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/trouble-and-the-dark-alley/#more-2935
BSR @ 14.40
Is that a pregnant woman sneaking into the huddle at the right hand side?
Tom -you have mail.
Sevco’s money-spinning pre-season glamour challenge match versus Kelty Hearts at Central Park has been cancelled…
The Stefan Winiarski Testimonial Match between Kelty Hearts and Rangers on Wednesday has been postponed to a later date due to the SFA not granting Rangers a licence to play any matches, friendlies or competitive.
Rangers have instructed us that an alternative date will be arranged very soon so all tickets and hospitality tickets are still valid for the match.
We are all gutted with all the work done sending tickets out etc, money spent and time put in by volunteers to make the night a great one, as you can imagine Stefan is also sick at this outcome.
Programmes have been printed, food ordered, marquee for hospitality etc. so a thanks must go to the SFA for having a negative impact on not only the top end of Scottish Football but lower end also.
http://keltyhearts.co.uk
DBBIA
I hear that to add greater appeal to naturists, Sevco’s players will have their strips painted onto their skin.
Should stop tugging in the box at set plays.
JohnnyClash
Ha – One of the reasons I never don the Hoops, I just wouldn’t do it to them.
Bell, gone now, only a metter of time methinks……………
Dae You Guys Really, Really Really…want Euro Success ,fur oor Team..???
Ah dinna think.. YOU DO!
Fur..
In Ma Opinion..mind ye..jist.. MA OPINION,Folks!
The only way that Neil kin Achieve Euro success, whit these present Celtic Players .. wid be..
Tae.. Get oan the Blower..
and..
Call up.. Mr . Smith!
Yep, that is the Same Smith.. the Wan who took a Rag Tag G.A. .. tae a Euro Cup Final..
and when Neil calls up Mr. Smith..
Neil, should Seek this Fellah’s Advice ..oan how tae Set up his Team Formation.. in the Same Fashion ,that. Walter did… When He wiz at the Helm of The G.A. ..
Every time, his Team played a Continental Team.
This is the ONLY way that Neil, wull be able tae get Thru the Euro League Prelims..
He must Set up his Team Formation, al la Mr..Smith.. and endeavour tae Replicate Walter’s Team Tactics,
as weel.
Fur ,this Celtic Team.. is no cut oot fur.. Free Flowing.. Slick Passing.. Joy tae watch… Team Soccer.
Especially, agin.. Continental Opponents.
If they try tae dae that.. then .. We wull only end up..
Oot of the Euro League, afore ye kin say Jack Robinson!
So.. How D’ya Like Dem.. Apples,folks??
Yep… Ah TOLD ye ..
You Guys..Really, Really, Really..
DON’T WANT . Euro Success!
Kojo
Still, Laughin’… of Course!
Sale Sharks owner Brian Kennedy has confirmed he remains interested in buying Rangers.
Kennedy, who was part of the Blue Knights consortium, was reportedly aiming to take a £5.6m controlling interest in Charles Green’s Sevco.
“The details of these meetings and the written offer I have submitted have been disclosed from within the club,” Kennedy said in a statement.
Sevco bought the assets of Rangers for £5.5m with the club facing liquidation.
In a statement, Kennedy confirmed he had made an written offer for control of the club.
“I have recently had several confidential meetings with a gentleman representing the shareholders of Sevco, with regards to my interest in purchasing a majority shareholding in Rangers Football Club,” he said.
“The details of these meetings and the written offer I have submitted have been disclosed from within the club.
“Now that this has leaked I have I have no alternative but to confirm that what is reported in the Daily Record regarding such matters is accurate.
“I have no further comment to make at this time.”
ASonOfDan on 23 July, 2012 at 14:40:
“But we only won it because rangers went into administration…”
You tell me now – after I knocked my pan out doing that…
Can anyone confirm ko time for tomorrow night’s game please?
Note to Big Morten this is how you do The Huddle
HT …….7. 45 pm
Broad gone as well, fat lady clearing her throat now.
July 23rd
2012
By: Phil Mac Giolla Bhain (published July 23rd, 2012 at 1:40 pm)
This Sevco saga seems to be revealing people in their true colours.
The Cheeky Chappie’s mask slips by the day.
I can reveal his latest outburst, that he had stormed out a SFA meeting and would never accept his former club being stripped of past titles and cups,has led to families of SFA executives being threatened.
This latest sinister outburst resulted in such an outpouring of bile and bitterness that police had to become involved.
You may ask why this has not been recorded in the mainstream press? It is indeed a valid query; they perhaps are two busy with James Traynor exclusive that there are white knights still wanting to invest £millions in the possible third division newco.
Of course the cheeky chappie has a history of exacerbating fraught situations and then disappearing like a blue ghost into the night without culpability.
Remember the confrontation with Neil Lennon, we may never know what was said but there was only one guilty party in the eyes of the mainstream press and it certainly wasn’t the Cheeky Chappie.
“Who are these people? I want to know who these people are?”
That was the Cheeky Chappie’s inflammatory outburst when the SFA’s fast track panel called for a transfer ban on his former club.
A premeditated battle cry to the Larkhall loyal and their army of cohorts. There are those that see the latest outburst as the Cheeky Chappie positioning himself for the “I do walking away” moment.
When innocent people are threatened and death threats are made one would have hoped Mr McCoist would be more careful when choosing his words.
The Larkhall loyal don’t want careful words, they are clinging to every syllable uttered by the Cheeky Chappie in the same way a drowning man would cling to any passing flotsam and driftwood.
Kojo on 23 July, 2012 at 14:52 said:
When did you formally become a comedian…..?
The Battered Bunnet on 23 July, 2012 at 14:48 said:
sorry to hear that Kelty Hearts are unable to go ahead with their event. Surely a young Celtic XI could be dispatched to Fife for the afternoon to fill the breach? Do our charitable origins extend to loyalist Fife?
Big heed the baw striker = Jon Daly. <o)
New Sevco Statue
sculpted by an unknown artist
I’m still at a loss as to why the polis never took any action over Sleekit’s previous comments when people connected to the panel that decided on the transfer embargo received threats.
Are they going to leave it until someone is attacked? Maybe the polis are too busy hunting wee bhoys from the Green Brigate to deal with it.
Matt McGlone tweeting that around 45,000 season tickets sold so far.
BigChipsUK
I’d prefer a repeat of a famous league cup victory:)
67 heaven
Thanks for that.
LuxCelt
For me the last line of the Kelty statement rules out any sympathy for them.
bournesouprecipe on 23 July, 2012 at 15:09:
You can see how he won over Hazel Irvine.
Over on sevco media all this carry -on can be blamed on 1 man and 1 man only not Taigy whyte not David muarry not emerald green but stevie Whitaker for getting sent of against malmo doing them out off the champ league money and forcing whyte in 2 admin :-)
Deluded csc
Steinreignedsupreme 14:53
lol! :0)
jock steins celtic on 23 July, 2012 at 15:15 said:
just re-read it. Aye – you are correct. That and the club name (and maroon strip) suggest a fairly unpleasant bunch all round!