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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Confused.
Why on earth would SPL, cash strapped as it is, bid for SFL TV rights?
!!Bada Bing!! on 23 July, 2012 at 19:01 said:
They’ll have nothing to talk about …..LOL
goldstar
No doubt bfdj will be slotted in somewhere in the near future.
SSB back on Snyde from next Monday…..
hamiltontim on 23 July, 2012 at 19:04 said:
Have to be a big francing slot!!
WeefratheTim on 23 July, 2012 at 19:02 said:
Is there any truth that the front facade of iPox has the red bricks From a demolished toilet block in Glasgow? I’m sure I heard this when I was a youth. I’m now retired. This is, apparently the reason it’s a pis.. Sorry listed building.
Any researchers out there?
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its an urban myth bud.
Its just built form the same type of bricks that were being used all over scotland at that time.
But it is still a toilet block.
daft wee point from me. See all the RANGERS iron work & tiles around the building, the letter G is poorly formed, allways looks out of scale,
its as bad as flyinh the jack upside down or not wearing a club tie when your an official
Shimmie why not do a system restore? Just go back to a time before she was last able to use it.
dirtymac » fast forward to the G.O.D on 23 July, 2012 at 16:01 said:
The Kaunas summer splurge was about £18m; don’t know how much was after Kaunas though. They then went 63 consecutive transfer windows without signing anyone, © Daily Ranger.
Myth then spent another £4.5m* on Jelavic, Weiss, Beattie, Foster, Bartley and Diouff.
*as far as I’m aware this is roughly the amount they actually paid. There’s around another £2m+ that’s still not been paid for these players
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The 2007 and 2008 Transfers are all here.
Rangers Transfer 2007 and 2008
The August 2008 xfers were in spite of £24M tax bill having been presented .
Real radio phone in scrapped ?
Ha ha the world seems to think only Sevco count..
GIRUY ya div 3 imposters..
Bye bye Sevco ..
HH
Saint Stivs
Thanks for that. I havn’t been in the place since the disaster.
Weefra HH
What time is the kick-off against Aberdeen?
A67
Shimmie33
Read carefully
Anything you dont understand then let me know
http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/runtime-error-roaming-profile-workflows.html
HH
ArranmoreBhoyLXV11 on 23 July, 2012 at 19:11 said:
……and bye bye RR phone-in…..just one to go now ……LOL
Btw
That iPad iPhone app is fantastic.
Weefra HH
Andrew67 on 23 July, 2012 at 19:12 said:
What time is the kick-off against Aberdeen?
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12.45pm on the Saturday.
goldstar10 on 23 July, 2012 at 19:02 said:
I think you’ll find he lacks one of those :)
HH
Anyone got all breaking bad DVDs? Looking to borrow for a watch
Drop me an email at bundoranbhoy@gmail.com
cheapskatecsc
HH
Hamiltontim,
It’s still showing 3pm ko v. Aberdeen on the fishul website!
Any Site Agents on,Building Sites that is?
Anybody see the STV news? What was that all about ‘The Orangers Ticket Office’, I’ve seen it all now…
I despair…
On another note, I think it is time to start sweeping the terraces at Cathkin Park.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
celticrollercoaster supporting wee Oscar on 23 July, 2012 at 18:21 said:
raymilland on 23 July, 2012 at 18:00
stevebhoy on 23 July, 2012 at 18:28 said:
celticrollercoaster supporting wee Oscar on 23 July, 2012 at 18:21
Re Kids ST now £129
You say its not Celtic’s fault that they raised the Kids ST due to the loss of the two home games against r@ngers and somebody has to pay for their funeral. A pauper’s grave is good enough for them, why should we pay for their burial?
Celtic set the prices for ST. If that they are willing to gamble on potential loss of future growth of fan base; it could be our own funeral we are paying for. Steveboy, from your flippant post, I take it that you have not yet reached parenthood, how many kids ST have you purchased?
Who introduced us to Celtic; and at what age? I think its safe to say, our old man passed on the torch. The importance of generation upon generation of Celtic fans cannot be underestimated. Times do change, as has become apparent across the city.
To stay ahead of the game, families of ordinary working class backgrounds should not be burdened with finding large sums of cash to maintain the Celtic family, subsidy of family tickets is vital for the long term view.
CFC Web ,tickets section has 12.45 but says could be subject to change? Really ridiculous for guys who have to arrange travel etc that KO dates and times are not confirmed earlier,Helsinki still not confirmed either.
Emerald Bee
Got a couple of texts today saying it’s definitely been moved to 12.45pm for TV mate.
gallagher- Of course you are right, there is a shiver looking for a spine to run up and down in the SSB studio.
raymilland-Spot on.
!!Bada Bing!! on 23 July, 2012 at 19:32 said:
CFC Web ,tickets section has 12.45 but says could be subject to change? Really ridiculous for guys who have to arrange travel etc that KO dates and times are not confirmed earlier,Helsinki still not confirmed either
agree about the Aberdeen game, should be confirmed by now……but we are not officially playing Helsinki yet, hopefully they will confirm the date as soon as they are through
Did Lenny speak out about the stripping of titles? I heard it was in the sun and I don’t buy the rag nor want to give any hits on their web site.
Thanks in advance.
are we sure there was not £50 season books for kids ?
i am positive my nephew renewed for the £50 price.
anyone on from KANO foundation to tell us what the prices are ?
Magnificentseven-Good point but Helsinki or Reykavik on ……… @ 7.45,could possibly have been announced.HH.
Magnificentseven-Though we don’t wan’t it to clash with a Sevco/ Brechin, Ramsden’s Sovvy Ring Cup Replay…:}
Hamiltontim, cheers. Wouldn’t be surprised, would we? I’ll keep a beady eye open.
!!Bada Bing!! on 23 July, 2012 at 19:37 said:
Magnificentseven-Good point but Helsinki or Reykavik on ……… @ 7.45,could possibly have been announced.HH.
yes but UEFA will determine dates dependant upon who gets through all of the ties
and I think on the £50 kids tickets, there are only so many for sale once they are sold out you get one that includes all the games at the higher price
raymilland
I agree with your call.
I remember getting lifted over regularly to get into the games. As I was almost 6 feet at age 14, they started to object.
Surely, there can be some compromise on this hike when we are not a stadium that sells out. Kids are more likely to have money spent on them at the kiosks too.
Was this idea road tested with fans at all?
Poor big fat DJ 20 plus years at radio snyde,goes tae unreal and it all goes ti€$ up,probably a direct result of his cheating club:-)
EmeraldBee
As Bada says the ticket page on the official site states that it could change but I’d be surprised if it did given that its already been moved from 3pm.
Around this time last week some brilliant CQN’r posted a link to season 5 episode 1 of
BB, just saying like.
!!Bada Bing!! on 23 July, 2012 at 19:40
Mixed fortunes for DJ indeed. Still looking on the bright side, I’m sure he’ll just be glad he’s managed to outlive Rangers.
Good Evening.
Modern technology can be a real pain, especially when you want to reboot something, or reconfigure it or basically reinstall what you have become used to for some time. With computers and their ancilliaries, such an exercise often means going back to the start which as often as not means searching for the bloody disc that helped you out with the initial instalation.
It was this scenario which, last night, brought about a complete clear out of the family computer desk in search of that all illusive instalation disk which everyone in the household was looking for. The disc, like all complete mysetries, was never to be found, but the search process resulted in various pieces of junk and out of date materials being confined to La Poubelle!
This exercise in domestic cleanliness was, however, unexpectedly halted when I came across a couple of books which my sons had clearly taken from elsewhere, and for some reason had seen fit to leave around the computer desk for no apparent obvious reason.
One such tomb was an old friend which no doubt many of you have somewhere in your own houses. It is entitled simply- McIlvanney on Football.
For those who may not be familiar with the journalistic prose of Hugh McIlvanney can I urge you to go and purchase a copy of this book forthwith. Further, if you can get a copy of the similarly entitled ” McIlvanney on Boxing” or ” McIlvanney on Horseracing” then do not hesitate to buy these immediately and without a second thought.
Hugh McIlvanney is the only sports writer to have ever been voted Journalist of the year, and was given a lifetime achievement award at the 2004 Scottish Press Awards. He was also voted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame without ever throwing a punch, but was clearly recognised for his ability to describe various men throwing thousands of punches over a period of decades.
In short, when it comes to McIlvanney, the press corps that we have today are basically not fit to be a smudged full stop at the bottom of his page.
Yet, in his book, he praises to the highest degree another Journalist, namely the late John Rafferty– who wrote, taught, and at one point helped train arguably Glasgow and Scotland’s greatest ever boxer— Jackie Patterson.
However, it was on picking up McIlvanney on Football that I was reminded of an absolute, a truism, a sheer undeniable fact ( at least in the eyes of the Kilmarnock born McIlvanney ) that can sometimes be overlooked, and the significance of which can sometimes get lost in its sheer simplicity.
The revelation concerned comes with the title of the very first chapter that the man writes on football. It is simply entitled— The Big Man- and other greats!
Oh, there are plenty of greats in there too– Bobby Moore, Pele, Best, Cruyff, Ferguson, Clough, Puskas and so on, but the title tells you all you need to know about what McIlvanney sees as the pecking order. His chapter tells of the Big Man– and then the other greats!
Yes, the “others” are greats– but along side The Big Man– they are but– well— others!
This description is in no way meant to belittle the achievements or the abilities of those others, but the use of the word “others” places all of these greats in one camp or collection, and the Big Man as someone outside that collective term.
In his time, and at his zenith, McIlvanney wrote for The Dailly Express, The Scotsman, The Observer and The Sunday Times. His was not, in the main, a Scottish readership, yet his opening salvo on football makes reference to The Big Man as the standard by which all other so called “greats” will be judged or compared— when in fact it may well have been more popular south of the border to highlight some of the others who are mentioned later on in the chapter.
However the book is called McIlvanney on Football— not McIlvanney on popularity.
As I thumbed the familiar pages of this book, that Big Man came to mind. In particular something that he used to say about pre season came to mind and struck home like shaft of light.
In his day, as often as not, Celtic would go on a pre season tour of Ireland. It was said that this gave the Irish based support a chance to see the great Glasgow Celtic at close quarters and it was a duty fulfilled by the club, recognising the support that came from Ireland.
Whike that may have been so, The Big Man used the games concerned for an altogether different purpose. With no disrespect to Sligo Rovers, Bohemians, or any other league of Ireland team, The Big Man used these games to get his team used to dominating a game with the football, scoring cricket like scores with the forwards becoming refamiliarised with the running of their team mates and honing the ability to find the goal….. time after time after time.
Get the forwards used to scoring by the barrel load, he would say, get their confidence up, where they believed that they could score at every opportunity and with every chance.Get them used to creating chances and scoring repeatedly.
The best way to defend was to attack, and he often repeated the mantra that his team were not to be concerned about who the opposition were, or what the opposition would or could do– if they didn’t have the ball, then they couldn’t do much!!!
Ajax of Amsterdam have scored plenty of goals in their pre season- 4 against us!
I wonder if the pre season policy at Celtic Park is the wisest of policies?
Yes there are glamour ties with Madrid etc in the USA and there are ties at home against Norwich and Inter Milan which will represent a stiff test– albeit a friendly one. Maybe some of these are lucrative in the financial sense.
However, I cannot but help thinking back to the big man’s thinking. If you have a team with a degree of quality, then get them up to speed, fill them with confidence, get them familiar with their own moves and strengths, and let them start out any campaign with sheer and utter belief that against anyone they can bag goals aplenty. As the opposition improves in quality, yes, the goal chances will lessen in number, but if you have been trained to take & create as many goal chances as possible, then the opposition has to work helish hard to prevent you from converting the chances created– and while they are busy preventing you from scoring, they are no threat to your own goal!
Further, if you take to the field believing that you can score and will score, then it will show and your opponent will sense it, know it, and adjust their play to try and prevent it. In this way- you dictate the game and how it will go!
Last year we saw a Celtic team that stuttered its way into Europe, although eventually that stuttering team produced some excellent and much improved performances against teams that went far in European competition.. This year they embark on Europe as Champions, and hopefully they will hit their stride and play with the confidence of champions quickly. The trick is to gain that confidence and self belief quicker than last year, and take to the field with that confidence as the twelth man.
To that end I wonder about what the club should be doing pre season and whether or not a lesson can be learned from the book that had fallen down the back of the computer desk.
The Big Man ( singular ) and other..greats (plural)… the chapter was called that for a reason. Sometimes his methods are worth revisiting and reinstalling– just like rebooting a computer– you go back to the basic tools that made it work before with optimum results!