“If I hadn’t seen such riches, I could live with being poor.” When Celtic Park hosted the Commonwealth games in 2014, we played Champions League qualifiers at Murrayfield. It was an eye-opener. Entrance and egress, catering and shops, space and the feeling of safety and comfort were a level above what I was used to in the at the back row of the North Stand at Celtic Park (since moved).
Last month, I engaged the club on the need to improve the spectator experience, spend some money, be more like Murrayfield. I received an off the cuff but still detailed response on the millions spent each year to maintain and improve the stadium.
Property maintenance is a continuous job, especially in Scotland for buildings erected in the second half of the 20th century. If you cut corners, you have a bigger job and a higher price to pay down the road.
Newco are caught in a property renovation bind that could be straight out of an episode of Grand Designs. “Billy, a tax accountant from Glasgow, is building an eight-bedroom hovering home and has decided to project manage himself. Billy remembers ordering the steel girders, but the Chinese supplier is no longer answering the phone.” We are right to mock Billy.
You, me and James have seen such riches. We want to sit down in a stadium fit for the middle of the 21st century. What else are we going to do with all those millions?
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KINGLUBO on 22ND JUNE 2024 7:39 PM
KL – Suggestion?
Add ” to win trophies” to your last sentence and read back?
bournesouprecipe
Agreed! The ITV analyst, female, American, and former FIFA referee used the word “forensic” in explanation of the decision to disallow Lukaku’s goal. Ange, not a fan, picked up on it, as did Ian Wright. I’ve said before on here, the game, the pitch, the dimensions are not measured in mm. Now, last night a goal was disallowed, Dutch, which I believe should have been given under the rules, (which I do not necessarily agree with), even though the forward was on his own in the six yard box. And yet Lukaku is penalised, after the fact, in mm.
As Tom Mac pointed out, McCoist called De Breune’s goal offside, when in fact he was onside the ball was played. Wenger has proposed a change, as have I, clear advantage. I might even apply that to handball, does the player involved, attacker or defender gain a clear advantage by handling the ball?
The game should otherwise be judged as the supporters see it, not some VAR after looking at videos for five minutes, while the referee talks to Virgil on the pitch.
My bad.
Correction
Suggestion should be Add ” to win trophies” to your first sentence and read back?
Night all.
You are an absolute shower. So there now.
Good night all. 😴
Brian Downey, Philip Lynott, Eric Bell.
Eric Bell plays one of the greatest guitar solos.
Aye indeed.
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St.Stivs
Your on fire today good Celt,informative and educational as per usual,great stuff.👏👏
In respinse to your 4.47post re Insider this is an article fro Ian Fraser at The Herald and details the cherry picking of assets
– See more at: http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/football-costs-a-get-it-up-you-from-kilmarnock-and-aberdeen-giving-excuses-to-fail/#sthash.PzlciE9O.dpuf
Hail Hail
Scroll down to 1.18 once in link
HH
Frank Zappa.
An extraordinary guitar player. One of my many heroes.
https://youtu.be/ZqZBCjsKlDI?si=sIlMazsy9-rcIqY0
driving duties tilll now, family in a wee read back gets me this gem
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osted 12 hours ago
The steel is being fabricated in the UK. Its other materials coming from abroad that are being held up
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they must be waiting on the asbestos
Dearie me 🤣🤣
ALTAN – LURGY STREAMS
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Dearie me
Good morning all from a dry Garngad in both senses, weather and drink.
I hope Scotland can get a win tonight but it will not have any bearing on my mood if we are home by Tuesday.
The banter years continue with these clowns over Govan way and their clownish behaviour in trying to add 600 odd seats, oh ma sides.
The what’s app stuff kicking about are comedy gold.
That open top city tour bus by some 10 or 15 Celtic supporters is Genius.
What a summer this is so far, although I wish the weather would pick up.
Off to watch the wee man soon.
D. :)
Alan Sneddon and wee Coisty are the best co commentators.
Why do I say that?
Coz IDGAF what school they went to unlike the green tinted fake Timmy bigots.
Oh and John Brown and wee Peter Grant have had speech therapy sessions so they`ll be breakig into the main channels soon. 👀
Hmmm…
http://climatechangeagenda.com/ 👀
Scamming the arses off of the wee Timmid sheepies.
🍀
….oot.
I find co-commentators unnecessary and mostly boring, however, there is one I quite like who never gets a mention, and that’s BBC 5 Live’s Clinton Morrison. The ex-Republic of Ireland player is
knowledgeable, humorous, is never boring, and, unlike McCoist and certain others, doesn’t give the impression that his opinion is the most important. Modesty is a virtue…
Good morning all from Govanhill.
Coisty??? FFS. Embarrassing for the loser.
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Morning all from Bowness-On-Windermere, Scotland top on and 7 days of drinking fun 😁 🍻🍺
1940: Willie Wallace born in Kirkintilloch.
“I’m a Celtic supporter first and foremost, since the day I signed for the club and until my dying day. I’ve never kicked Celtic – except when I played against them!”
Willie Wallace (2018)
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Souness, McCoist and McCann are not anti-Scotland, they are anti-Celtic. They will use any platform they get to demean our players and club. The fact they are allowed to do so says it all.
McCann grinds my gears most of all. Souness and McCoist are employed by a commercial organisation, EBT McCann, however, is employed by a tax-payer funded institution.
I have enjoyed reading the discussions on spending on Celtic Park infrastructure. I noticed Liverpool’s work (£60, 80 110 million depending on what websites you read) will expand capacity and bring in £10 million a year. Considering Liverpool got £168 million just from EPL TV money last year and Celtic got £4.2 how do we recoup the money? I’m not saying we shouldn’t but how do we balance a massive spend with a limited income?
Celtic Mac @ ages ago
Yip. The Lukaku goal might be another turning point in the VAR experiment , it defies the logic of the game that your arm or even a bit of it is offside. You can’t score with your arm ( last time I checked ) so how can you be offside? VAR is being abused, not used. A return to common sense, whole body or daylight between, is inevitable, millimetres and centimetres between feet, can’t be measured. We have to ‘draw the line’ under technological advance, and get back to live football.
https://youtu.be/EzBnzD0XZo0?si=rswD5KqeMREVtyim
A very good listen this weeks guest Tosh.
Gene
Thanks for replies, but what does the financial year have to do with it, other than money in the bank, just get these two guys in, it’s not that we are short of cash. No excuse
KINGLuBO
My son’s in Germany and called from Stuttgart.
Experience of a life time he said. He’s spoke to fans ranging from Dundee United to Ayr, Dunfermline to Thisle…..but yet to come across you know who.
The Swiss, Turks, Germans and even the English have been great company. The Tartan army have excelled themselves. I just wish we had the wherewithal and expertise to build on our national sport.
Scotland has always been a football mad country and the display of passion witnessed in Germany will have reminded the authorities of that. Sadly
nothing will change though.
bournesouprecipe
You’re not wrong Bourne.
Been thinking a bit more about this “forensic” approach.
Some of the decisions the Ringers got last season should be less of a VAR investigation more one for CSI
Good afternoon all from Sharkeys Bar, sunny Gorbals.
McCanns contribution advising Big Tone to open up his body before he receives a pass to give himself an option to play the ball forward to a non-existent forward. Followed up by his suggestion of playing wee Jamsie at right wing back against Switzerland…..
…. German beer can be strong.
It would be fantastic if wee Jamsie came on last 15 minute and scored a last minute winner to take us through , followed by Calum blocking on the line a goal bound shot shortly after.
Gardening time I’m told
SFA have killed our game only way to save our game is to starve them and demand action we’ve went backwards whilst others have went forwards. Oldco in the late eightees went foreign and others followed and it hampered the national team.
Aberdeen with Leighton McKimmie Miller McLeish Strachan Black McGhee.
Utd with Malpas Hegarty Narey Bannon Sturrock.
Celtic with Aitken McStay Burns Grant McClair were all developed local talent.
Wee Jamesie would terrorise the Magyar defence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdSgyufXFEY
HAPPY B DAY WILLIE
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Had a wee read at the 2015 blog you posted a link to earlier.
An interesting read in itself, but I decided to have a wee look through the comments .
Really to see how many posters from then are no longer posting today, however the comments were also interesting.
A bit of chat about injuries referencing Jozo, Charlie, Adam Matthew’s and Stuart Armstrong .
However the last line of spirit of Arthur Lee’s post “Derk is available for selection” was the prizewinning contribution for me.
Scullybhoy
Great stuff. Willie was my favourite Celtic striker, let him go far too soon.
https://celtsarehere.com/could-celtic-be-set-to-introduce-season-ticket-game-changer/
Been mentioned on here regularly…..
weebobbycollins
And of course Clinton Morrison is a Celtic supporter. James McFadden has got better over the years and is in no way anti Celtic, though critical of Tony’s mistake the other night. Souness and McCoist both have an agenda, the former desperate for some kind of a job at Ayebrokes, might be ok for a club match not for a Scotland one.
Nothing wrong with critique, no place for bigotry. Amazing that Joe Hart and Ange are more positive than Scots, and Chris Sutton will always try and give us a fair shout. The least said about Pat Nevin the better. Shebahn Ahearne brings her own brand of enthusiasm to TalksSport, and to Celtic and Scotland. Kenny’s daughter Kelly is engaging on radio, and have been impressed with Rachel Corsie’s intelligent approach to the games, while Eilidh Barbour is great on both radio and tv.
Scotland needs all the positive enthusiasm we can find for tonight’s game against Hungary, and more on that later on here.
Superbru Round 2 Update
I found Round 2 results difficult to predict and have dropped from a Top 10 position to below halfway. I knew there would be a few more draws as teams settled for not being defeated and knocked out but I just predicted the wrong fixtures for the draws.
Those that had more success in that are the leaders after Round 2:-
Borgo67- 29 pts (moving up 15 places in this round)
Kolncelt- 26 pts ( using local knowledge or just the beer)
3= Knoxy, ACGR, Call Me Gerry, & Drew 67 -25.5 pts (consistent performers thru Rnds 1&2)
At the bottom, leading the wooden spoon race we have:-
snapper1969- 9.5 pts (tbf- he missed a few predictions)
Big Jimmy- 13 pts
Por Cierto- 13.5 pts
Most have got their picks in for tonight’s matches- remember an 8 pm deadline for both. Don’t let qualification nerves get the better of you. Can you back the Huns against Scotland?😀