“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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Murray out of Wimbledon, shame
BIGRAILROADBLUES on 23RD JUNE 2024 12:16 PM
Wee Jamesie would terrorise the Magyar defence.
It can be tricky trying to mark an invisible opponent ! -)))
We don’t like Fat Salary. Ok i get that, he played and managed our old rivals.
I dont think he is a great commentator, and teeth that Dobbin would be proud of doesn’t help him.
But that’s not the point, he is popular outwith the Celtic demography and I feel that calling him a bigot is disrespectfull to the family of the late great Tommy Burns.
HH.
https://youtu.be/-5TefdES9CM
WISPY INTERVIEW
‘Dukla were a very fine side but Willie Wallace made the difference,’
Archie Macpherson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_LrOkEIMoI
Came across these comments on match co-commentators…
“And who is that guy who sounds like Sean Connery? Interesting for a while but ultimately tedious.”
“Vicky Sparks has got a voice like an air raid siren.”
“…the fake excitement “shriekers” really get on my nerves, the worst offenders being Derek Rae, Jonathan Pearce and Vicki Sparks.”
I wonder who’s the guy who sounds like Sean Connery? 😁
celtic
What are the odds on 0-0 between Germany and Switzerland tonight?
Suits them both.
Would see Germany top the group and ensure Swiss qualification. Germany won’t want to lose as being second would give them a harder last 16 tie.
but why the stairs
SS- I posted a suggestion of a ticket exchange scheme next season ☝️
Alan Hansen discharged from hospital
bb, ta, just read it. fingers crossed.
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The regular sell-out status of Celtic games often belies the reality within the stadium, where empty seats are noticeable due to season ticket holders not using their tickets.
Kinglubo
From earlier – if we bought someone today it would appear in this year’s financial results whereas after 30 June it’s in 24/25 – which may not suit our annual results.
just because it is funny,
their blogs are full of people finally blaming murray for something,
while deliciously missing th epoint that the stands were built before he even joined, wahahahahaha
next up, someone is saying did archibald leitch know this, i doubt it as he was dead around 40 years earlier.
Glendalystonsils 1.05
Aye 😂
The sun glinting off his medals will definitely confuse them.🤣
has anyone inthe whole football world actually bought anyone so far in the transfer window ?
and i mean hard cash spending.
Saint stivs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/crggyyggz5ro
Our Wispy
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Stivs
Can’t see spending levels matching previous years anywhere in the world. Maybe clubs are wising up.
sinking now is iot.
DAVID66 on 23RD JUNE 2024 7:36 AM
……………
How did wee RILEY get on Today ?
Did his team win ?
Did he score ?
Did he provide an ” assist” ?
Did he play well once again ?
I love to hear/read about Riley and his early foot steps to Fitba Greatness.
HH to Riley, the Celtic Bhoy.
The celtic way looks good and the big spenders have nice car park and facilities. But why did the paving from the celtic way not continue round both sides of the stadium to created a designated pedestrian zone that is austetically pleasing, with place markers like statues, benches potted trees etc dotted about?
The walk up the the stadium from the jock stain and Lisbon lion ends is a pitiful eyesores. Just another thing that is neglected and should be landscaped to a good level.
Spending money getting hotels, ticket office, superstore, museums, restuarant, event space, cafe etc consent then throwing them into the long grass when your sitting with so much money does not make any sense (for those that say hotel can’t succeed in east end, kilmarnock hotel does no bad, so spare me). Games, athletic events across the road, business events, weddings, funerals, normal family religious (open to all) events etc, day trippers etc.
Investment is needed to improve the stadium and surrounding envios. Celtic should be working to make celtic park an events space/ venue that is regularly brings and keeps folk there for lengthy periods.
Happy with the progress taking place at barrowfield. Longer term I would have like to see a grand stand of 3000k – 5000k and 250 car parking spaces developed at at the upper level (directly behind the celtic social club). That site would then give celtic for woman and b-team games, woam team and academy training facilities, reduce cost of hiring ground for home games and proved additional 250 parking spaces for men’s games (so bring a little revenue as well).
All of the above would cost a pity penny no doubt but would transform the match day and non-match day for supporters, visitor. I would expect that it would also improve celtics income and reduce overheads.
Our clubs current custodians are rolling out the red carpet to thousands of trouble some huns next season while depriving our own supporters of said seats.
Any ticket exchange system will only mask this blatent betrayal of the thousands of Celtic fans who previously sat there.
HH.
Hard man Alistair Johnston ashamed the he’s a white skinned person and that mainly white Canada was taking too long to, ahem, embrace the zio “Kalergi plan” or, white replacement plan. 👀️
https://celtsarehere.com/alistair-johnston-defends-canadas-diversity-with-powerful-response-to-tragic-post/
Cuckolded club – Cuckolded fanbase – Cuckolded to Old Firmism.
PS, Canada has a black faced white leader who’s name makes my house go on fire if I type it so I wont bother.
Cuckold FC can go cuck itself. 👀️
Hmmm.
🍀️
….oot.
Ffs another full moon.
GREENPINATA on 23RD JUNE 2024 1:06 PM
We don’t like Fat Salary. Ok i get that, he played and managed our old rivals.
I dont think he is a great commentator, and teeth that Dobbin would be proud of doesn’t help him.
But that’s not the point, he is popular outwith the Celtic demography and I feel that calling him a bigot is disrespectfull to the family of the late great Tommy Burns
…………..
I DISAGREE about McCoist.
He is not only woeful when it comes to commentaries, but I would bet that he even annoys some Huns due to constantly repeating himself, and forever agreeing with that other CHUMP….CLIVE TYDISLEY.
You seem to have forgotten that just recently BEFORE the 3 – 3 game against the Huns he publicly stated that HE was going to to BREAK the LAW when attending the game.
He has NEVER answered the question that was put to him…” How are you proposing to break the law…..by chanting/singing Blood songs/Chants against Catholics or by throwing Bottles at Celtic players….or maybe BOTH ? ”
I also remember the stories that I read/heard of when McCoist ( as a Hun Sub) against Celtic at Celtic Park, was running up and down the Touchline calling the young Celtic weans ” Fenian Bastards”, when they were sitting in the front rows of the Main Stand ?
As for Tommy Burns Funeral arrangements, it is NOT for me to tell the Burns family who should have been invited to attend or play an active part in Tommys Funeral.
HH.
saint stivs
If the Aybrokes project involves a cantilever stand I’m surprised they thought they could complete it in a couple of months, even if the materials were on hand, but given they are on a slow boat from China, they aren’t.
McCoist is a hun canute. He has no redeeming qualities.
Gary Gillespies Hamstring
Yeh it was an interesting blog and some great contributions.sometimes i click on blogs from back in day,full to brimming by contributing Celts,Am glad you enjoyed,SOAL was always good for a quip back and usually any reference of Derk Boeriggter was as long as his playing career.i seen most of it up til the half time injury:-)).
Hope alls well.
HH
Regarding the SFA, they have been asleep at the wheel for decades now.
Was thinking, when CalMac, McGinn, Robertson retire, who exactly will replace them !!!!!!
Bring back the reserve leagues now
KINGLuBO
Kilmarnock do not own the Park Hotel.
and celtic park an eyesore,
dearie me, every glimpse of it in any direction is paradise to me.
Ally McCoist was Celtic transfer target before dream Rangers move as John Greig reveals untold story
John Greig has revealed how he was told CELTIC were interested in signing Rangers strike legend Ally McCoist before he completed a move to take him to his boyhood heroes.
Greig was friends with then Sunderland boss Alan Durban who tipped him off that the Hoops, who went through a managerial change with David Hay succeeding Billy McNeill in the summer of 1983, wanted to land the striker. Greig had tried to sign McCoist before he went to the Black Cats from St Johnstone but missed out on his signature.
But he acted quickly on the advice of Roker Park boss Durban to ensure he didn’t miss out – especially to their fierce rivals. Greig told the story on the latest episode of BBC Scotland’s Icons of Football of how he landed the frontman, for just £185,000, who spent 15 years at Ibrox and became the club’s record goalscorer. Greig said: “I tried to sign him from St Johnstone but he said he wanted to play in Europe. I asked him where he was going to go and he said Sunderland. I said ‘the last time they were in Europe they had sails on boats’.
“A friend of mine was manager of Sunderland at the time and he phoned me to say Ally McCoist was unhappy and he was going to let him go. He told me he thought Celtic were interested in him and that if I wanted him I’d have to act quick.
“So Tommy McClean who was my assistant in those days, we drove down and met him at Carlisle. He agreed to come and the terms were all okay and everything, no problem. And he was flashing his lights at me on the motorway, on the M74. And we pulled in and said, ‘What’s wrong with you?’ He said, ‘I’m needing petrol’, so I told him to pull into the next stop and get it but he said he had no money. So we had to pull into a petrol station and I had to fill his car up with petrol – I should have known then that was the start of my problems!
“Seriously, apart from scoring goals he was a great character in the dressing room and I’m not in the least bit surprised to see how successful he’s been in all the things he’s done since he stopped playing.”
Walter Smith was, imo, also a bigot but appointed Tommy Burns to a job with Scotland.
“The linesman , I think his name is Murphy” post match interview is only one piece of evidence about his attitude.
Any tim of a certain age who comes from Carmyle could tell you about him.
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Is it the same Ally McCoist we’re talking about? The one who admitted he would knowingly break the law by singing about being up to his knees in Fenian blood at the Ibrox game just a few weeks ago?
The fact that he was at Tommy Burns funeral and that Tommy was prepared to accept him as a friend says more about Tommy’s Christian charity than it does about McCoist .
Dearie me
i stumbled across the sally/walter interiews about donald findlay the other day,
most insighful.
and i did coclude myslef “aye a bigot would say that”