I don’t like playing games when players have transfer or contract business swirling around the dressing room. Give a team an excuse to underperform and they tend to grab it, so I expect a difficult challenge at Easter Road tomorrow. If we want to maintain our unbeaten run and two month old clean sheet record we’ll need to bring our A game.
Neil Lennon’s comments at yesterday’s media conference, about potentially dropping players who plan to leave in the summer, point in this direction. Few manage to perform with an eye on their next gig.
Well done to the new regime at Newco Rangers who used Latin in their stock market announcement yesterday. There was no “ex-gratia” payment to resigning director, Brian Stockbridge, who instead had his contract paid up.
Paying Stockbridge in full is hardly a money saver but with him not around it will sweeten the medicine others will have to take and allow a fresh angle to be pitched to supporters at season ticket renewal time. Let’s hope their manager sticks to his contractual guns.
Daily Record columnist, Chris Sutton, has today made the case for Neil Lennon to leave Celtic and move to England. Nice one, Chris. If you hand around long enough to get to see it all.
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DD,
Had to think there.I am thinking Is that what they had or the school they went to?
Too much narrow minded thinking
about independence.
This is our opportunity to show the world what
a great albeit imperfect country we are.
Weefra
I know you will be lurking for a while….go on name them !!!
HH
TCR
Victoria Drive was her proddy school.
Now its flats, flats glorious flats.
Doomdome to follow VD. :)
A man’s a man for aw that.
G64
Yes. Scottish self determination. Now is the day. Now is the hour!
Anyone who votes to stay in the union
will be voting for their children to remain in
slavery to to the crown.
/
Oops…Skoosh
G64
Thankfully I have four children who are voting yes for my six grandchildren. The teens and twenties are the swing to Independence.
gordon64
22:59 on 25 January, 2014
What do the Trust stand for…?
Olive branch..?….come off it….
Junior Capo
Fred c. Dobbs
Never realised how much possession we had in the run up to the brown goal
Impressive
gordon64
23:34 on 25 January, 2014
Scotland. …..a great country…..hahahaha……i’m away fto my bed……don’t want to take this debate with my friends in Celtic too seriously……I wouldn’t vote for any of them…politicians, hahahaha ..if you know your HISTORY
Bhoylo83,
When we exclude the officials they are guff.
A wee song for the independentophiles from one of Scotland`s best products.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoZZVkDVZ0c
67H
The Trust represent me and a large number
of Celtic supporters.
67H
You are not voting for politicians in September. You are voting for emancipation.
Invitation to join a revamped Championship in the offing???
67 heaven,
gordon 64 comes on here as a good Celtic fan,
Incidentally,I don’t know the fella.
However you come on to rabble rouse
Oops I notice it’s time for the Party Political Broadcasts on behalf of the SNP. Time for bed.
Night all.
Here’s to a good game and a good victory against the Hibees tomorrow. I’ll be up in Leith but not for the game.
Hail! Hail!
gordon64
00:01 on 26 January, 2014
What is their constitution, how many members do they have, howmany fans do they represent, what have they achieved to date to take Celtic forward….and…..what are their declared objectives etc…..?…….just asking / curious
And there you have it, the voice of the happy clapper.
Sleep well Timland.
Won’t be easy the morra, El Tel will have them up for it, we can expect a few kickings, but par for the course in sectarianland, we just have to get on with it, sadly our custodians think this is Ok for their employees to get injured at the whim of the referees, one day, one day and I pray to god I am alive to see us playing on a level playing field.
I will dream on it, a level playing field.
HH
KTF
tricoloured ribbon
00:03 on 26 January, 2014
Does asking questions make you a rabble rouser……for a start, I don
For all those who want the status quo
may your grandchildren thank you for nothing.
For all those who vote for independence
may your grandchildren be proud of trying.
The trust (student activists for unions and Jeanette Findlay) honestly why don’t you just go away, your not wanted, you’ve been banging on on and on about all this rubbish for the last 10 years, give it a break, no ones interested, you’ve been outed, your times up, we know your agenda I’m sure it was worth a try to get your politics through, ok maybe I just should speak for myself and stop saying we and us, let’s keep to I, …..I just want to watch my team, cheer them on when they win, as far as I am concerned I don’t need you asking questions to my board, my board know what they are doing, they are very clever men, and all of the are Celtic Men, I could be wrong, but questions you are asking are embarrassing, there is one answer for about half your questions, and here it is, . Your GB made an A#%e of it so deal with it! we have all moved on, I suggest you try and do the same,. Good night, and HH and to all lurking Huns GIRUYs.
Delaneys Dunky
23:38 on
25 January, 2014
TCR
Victoria Drive was her proddy school.
Now its flats, flats glorious flats.
Doomdome to follow VD. :)
Billy Mc Neill`s wife was a pupil there.
Before I go, here’s Tom English’s final article for SoS.
It’s about Dave King’s talk being cheap.
YOU wonder how many more times Dave King is intending to speak about his hopes and fears for Rangers before he actually he does something about it.
On each occasion that King pipes up, there seems to be a collective flutter of Rangers hearts at the prospect of the Return of the King, a vision of the future that sees him cast in the role of the great redeemer banishing the spivs to the wilderness before training his guns on Celtic and an assault on their dominance in the Premiership.
Where King is concerned you just want to shout: “If you’re going to do something then bloody well get on with it!”
Many people have played to the galleries in the Rangers story and, although King, through his wealth, has more substance than any of the chancers that have gone before him, he can still legitimately be accused of grandstanding.
The other day, he outlined his vision anew. He said that, if the incumbents at Ibrox start running Rangers on the budget of an East Fife, then Rangers will shrink to the size of East Fife. Nobody has ever suggested that Rangers are ever going to be run on the budget of an East Fife, so it was a ridiculous thing to say. And he said it more than once. “I don’t feel the club should respond by cutting the costs to the point of saying: ‘We only have to do what is necessary to beat East Fife or whoever.’”
King seemed to want to play on supporters’ fears. The gist was: ‘Watch out! This cost-cutting is going to turn us into a small-fry. We can’t have that’. Well, do something about it then, Dave.
He went on to talk about Rangers’ return to the Premiership and imagined a scenario of them finishing – shock, horror – sixth “or something like that.” Horrendous, said King. “And certainly contrary to what I would want to do with the club.”
But what does he want to do with the club and why hasn’t he done it? He clearly has a brilliant business mind and it’s believed he has, er, an off-the-radar amount of rand. So it was hard to read his concern for Rangers in this cost-cutting age without casting the mind back to the various opportunities he has had to eliminate those concerns and never done so.
He could have bought the club from David Murray, but didn’t. He could have made a move in the summer of 2012 and blown Charles Green out of the water, but he didn’t do that either. When Green was found out, King could have gone to war and started hoovering up available shares to get himself in a position of some kind of influence at Ibrox, but he didn’t get involved.
He might argue that there was good reason for his lack of action; the spectre of the big tax case in the first instance and his refusal to line the pockets of Green and company by buying their over-priced shares in the last instance, but none of those reasons sit particularly well with the image of a man who is supposedly desperate to see Rangers restored to full health and challenging for the biggest prizes in Scottish football.
Fergus McCann, right, provided the template in all of this. He saw his club heading for extinction and he went and made sure that it didn’t happen. He didn’t showboat with the fans, didn’t talk big to journalists, he just went in there and did the deal, end of story. No doubt, along the way, he had to agree to things he would rather not have agreed to, but that’s the situation he was in and he accepted it and he saved Celtic. Because he truly wanted to, no matter what.
Even though the South African Revenue Service relieved him of upwards of £50 million in cash and assets following his epic tax dispute – and conviction – sources in the revenue service still believe King to be an exceedingly wealthy man. So, he could have saved Rangers an awful lot of heartbreak had he used some of that wealth to take ownership of his club, a la McCann. He didn’t. Instead, he talked. And he’s still talking.
And too much of what he says speaks to the kind of attitude that brought Rangers to this point in the first place. King had his own role to play in that, too. Graham Wallace, who took over a ship heading for the rocks again and who is now attempting to steer it to safety, must feel he is being dictated to by a guy who, in the words of an SFA judicial panel report, didn’t do enough to stop the club going under when he was a serving director on Craig Whyte’s board.
King could have done so much more. Instead we’re hearing a strange hybrid of part financial realism and part classic Rangers hubris. It’s as if he can’t fully bring himself to accept that the club needs to downsize while it gets its act together, that it needs to rebuild from the bottom up, that, in this scenario, the most important thing is not so much challenging Celtic in the short-term but righting itself for the long-term.
King said, if that you cut costs too much, then Celtic might win 10-in-a-row. “We could be so far behind them that, even when we are back in the Premiership, we are not in a position to catch up.” That’s pretty skewed thinking. It’s the mindset of the old guard.
“Cost-cutting is not going to help us when we get to the Premier League,” said King. So the alternative, presumably, is to throw money at it?
How much money? Celtic have made the group stages of the Champions League in back-to-back seasons. That’s about £35m, give or take a few million either way. They sold Victor Wanyama for £12m, Gary Hooper for £6m and they have another multi-million pound asset in Fraser Forster, who may well end up in England pretty soon.
By the time Rangers are back in the Premiership, Celtic will have had a shot at two more group stages of the Champions League. Even if they are unsuccessful both times, they’d still be so far ahead of Rangers that it would make the eyes water if you tried to figure out how many millions it would take for the Ibrox club to become a serious challenger to them again.
King’s fighting talk has it that Rangers cannot risk being “battered 6-0” at Celtic Park. And “we can’t start losing 3-1 to Hibs and Aberdeen and accepting it. Saying ‘we are in a period of adjustment, it’s not too bad a season’ is not an option. It’s totally unacceptable.”
Why?
King is ignoring Rangers’ new reality. He’s stuck in a timewarp. If the club has to go through a few seasons of losing 3-1 to Hibs and Aberdeen, what difference does it make as long as they are slowly getting stronger?
If they take a few hidings from Celtic and have to watch them win more titles it shouldn’t matter in the grand scheme of things, so long as Rangers are building steadily for a solid future.
But, if King really wants to see Rangers hit the ground running in the Premiership, then more action and less talk is required.
He has allowed others to seize power at his club. No newspaper interview is going to put pressure on these guys to give up power, no matter how many interviews he does and no matter how many lovely visions of the future he dangles in front of supporters.
So, if he means business, then he’s going to have to get into the bearpit and fight for the club.
Talk is cheap. And, since this Rangers farrago began, that is all we have heard from him.
Silly ipad……Don’t see anny Celtic fans as “rabble”……….this is a debating forum, isn’t it…….and I reserve the right to detest all power-hungry politicians, who have done nothing for the poor, or the ordinary working man since the day I was born, and before then also……..and the Celtic Trust.? ……. i’m genuiney waiting to see something they have actually done for Celtic, or our support…..
gordon64
00:08 on 26 January, 2014
I respect your view………now you learn to respect the views of others, my mhan…HH
Go on Weefra Name them!!!
MacJay
I know, so was my best mate/best man at my St Paul’s marriage. Great guy but badly educated.
67 heaven,
I am talking about the post at 22.59
At the Vigil Mass tonight the 2nd reading was about ;
” Make up the differences between you, instead of
dissagreeing among yourselves”
So to take a leaf from the first letter of St Paul to the Corinthians,
what about,
the first letter of St Paul 67 to the Celticquicknewsians.
We all make mistakes, no one is perfect, I appeal to you brothers to make up the differences between you, and instead of dissagreeing among yourselves, to be united
again in your belief and practice.
And it was written, the Timmites would give thanks to the Lord, and rejoice.
The hunnites would be banished to the wilderness, as the prophets they worship
were thieves and liars. Why-tee, he who had plenty of shekels endured the wrath
of the hunnites, for it was he who deceiveth Murr-ee the son of David, also known
as the duped one. When Hec-tor the tax collector was sent among the hunnites,
there was much wailing, and gnashing of teeth. The Timmites rejoiced and the feast
was abundant with Jell-ee and ice- cream.
The hunnites were defiant, as they were the pee-pil, and were in awe of the chosen
one, All-ee . It came to pass All-ee was another false prophet, and the hunnites
despaired as All-ee ate all the pies, plundered the penny shares, and ran off with the
rest of the shekels. It was not the promised land, it was the cleaners they were taken to.
They were up to their knees in asset strippers, and there was much more wailing,
and the gnashing of teeth was down to the gums.
The Timmites rejoiced like never before, as the tribute hunnites were also banished
to the wilderness for ever more.
And it was written, “You reap what you sow”
The Power and the Glory was bestowed upon the Timmites, as they praised
The Lord, for he is good, and they were sent to Paradise at the feast of
St Padd-ee to eat, drink, and be merry,
Thanks be to God.
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CQteN is the place to be, see you there,
Peace be with you.
TCR
My grandfather was a red clydesider.
A member of the communist party.
His rabble rousing achieved hee haw
Other than to give me his undying devotion
to fight for a fairer society.
And to that i will be eternally grateful.
tonydonnelly67
00:09 on 26 January, 2014
Although I feel you should be a wee bit conciliatory, I generally agree with you…..hopefully, someone from the Trust is on CQN and can tell us something about them, as I’ve asked above
Any pics of Templeton getting “nudged of the ball” as the guy on shortbread put it??
TD67
You are as near to a hun as I have every encountered on a Celtic site.
You obvioulsey have had a few sherberts tonight, and again you tell your fellow Tims they are not wanted, that is as hunnish as I know.
We are all inclusive, whether you like it or not, black, yellow, Jewish, Muslim, Prod, Catholic, Left, right, take your choice, but your are never a Celtic man, you may well profess to be one, but dearie me, you need a ways to go to ever dream of being one.
Stick to slaters, get yoursel suited and booted, a Tim, yer havin a laf.
HH
KTF