Is the club safe with Sir David, Dave King and Paul Murray? Is Craig Whyte a worthy successor? Is Charles Green trustworthy? Is Ally McCoist a great manager? For the PR hired hands at Ibrox, the questions were always the same, it was just the answers that changed.
Few have the gall to deliver the PR messages which flow out of Ibrox, and that group of clubs have depended on PR spin for decades. Short of the communication of formal issues, like Annual Accounts and sensitive Stock Market issues, Celtic don’t utilise external PR services.
Celtic have in-house PR to facilitate media inquiries and the output of club message, but there’s no perceived need to bring in an external spin doctor to reframe reality. This is the way it should be, of course, you’ll never win a battle in the gutter with a guttersnipe, but there are costs.
We have had paid professionals successfully briefing against our club for decades, millions of people read and listen to these messages daily. This is a battle we will never win but the consequences for a football club trying to go about their business in an orderly manner are significant. The club, its directors, manager, players and supporters are variously painted as money-obsessed, anger-filled, flops and a rabble who hate the country their forefathers fought for.
We don’t indulge in PR excesses because Celtic have nothing to spin. They pay the taxes required to support their nation’s services, run an orderly business and are a remarkably well-respected and successful collection of fans, players, coaches and administrators. There are always unpopular decisions but the club face them down.
An eagle-eyed reader noticed an interesting aggregation in the two schools in Malawi we are assisting. Saturday’s article noted the pupil numbers at Kholoni Primary School in Mchinji as 1221 and St Josephs’ Primary School in Kasungu as 746. Go on, add the figures and see how many pupils will benefit from Celtic fans building kitchens. The spirit of ’67 is alive and kicking.
If you are driving to, or being driven to, CQteN on Friday, don’t think you can just nip along London Road and into Celtic Park. There is no access to the stadium from London Road. Access is via Janefield St, which, if you are coming from the east, means driving underneath the stadium. Make sure your taxi driver is aware.
There was a tremendous response to the whisky auction, which closes on Friday at noon, the current highest bid stands at £225. We have bottle No. 1 of a limited edition (291 in total) Craigallachie Telford’s Bridge, in a wooden box and presentation cardboard tube, whit an authentication certificate.
Bids are by email only to auction@celticquicknews.co.uk. This is a rare and valuable bottle. Shipping within UK and Ireland is included. Please include contact details and your bid amount.
Many thanks for all the kind wishes to the family yesterday, they were enormously appreciated.
Seville, The Celtic Movement, launches on Friday! Copies have landed and I hear…. it’s pretty decent.
“We are in the Estadio Do Besso on the 24th April 2003. We are far into the 78th minute of the 2nd leg of a UEFA Cup Semi-Final. The first leg in Glasgow, a fortnight earlier had seen Celtic obtain a 1:1 draw with Boavista, a relative minnow in Portuguese terms who had won their first ever top league title in season 2000/01, having only been 2nd on 2 previous occasions in their history.”
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Awe Naw,
Is it Liam Miller?
La not so bella Italia.
Much weeping,wailing and gnashing of teeth re the state of Italian football–
No Italian team in the Cl last 8.
Half empty stadiums .
Crumbling death trap stadiums
The violence
The behaviour in the stadiums.
The interesting Officiating .
etc etc ..
Lovely day,20 degrees at 2pm -way down south
But he didn’t get an SPL medal. Back to lurking
TootingTIM
No
There will be weather everywhere today.
WeefratheTim ,
looking to have a quick chat with you on Friday night .Believe im at table 39 with Lennybhoy , Pogmathonyahun and Johann Murdoch so either i’ll look you out or you can come searching for me – I’ll be the handsome one judging by the rest of the table !
Sanna
TootingTim , lurk away but looking forward to meeting up again on Friday .
That bottle of Craigallachie?
Does Allachie not translate from the Gaelic as White?
You have been duped?;>{}
south of tunis
13:09 on 12 March, 2014
If only you had a strong sevco.
goldstar10
Gary Player is a nice chap, lives not too far from me like many of the PGA tour players do. I have a good friend, South African, who had a neighboring farm to Gary’s in S.A.
Awe no
Is it Aisley Harriot look a like and sometime centre forward Dion Dublin?
sannabhoy
Unfortunately I wont be attending on Friday night, wish I could. Will just have to meet at the stadium before a game. I’m normally at the stadium around 2ish on normal kick off times. :-))
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
I don’t think our clubs PR is anything to shout about!
Been garbage for years. I don’t care about comms with the media but comms with clubs own fan base is shocking.
MWD wouldn’t go throwing stones in glaass houses.
Afternoon bhoys n ghirls
2 more sleeps till the CQteN (CANT WAIT!!!)
Aye Phil – whether yawe like it or not.
MWD
WeefratheTim , shame .
I’m round at the gates on Janefield at LL end to meet up with the kids from about 1:45 – 14:30 (depending on their punctuality) .
Alternatively , drop me a contact on sannabhoy@gmail.com
HH
Sanna
Sannabhoy/weefra
I have both your mobile numbers and can put you in touch that way if you like
BT…. 8))
BT , suits. Send me details to Weefra please .
PS you going on Friday ?
Will do, I normally meet up with my niece around 1430 at the SS and stand around the area where the tiles used to be.
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
Just commited a grade one “school boy error”
Me to wife “I’m Bored”
Off to cut the grass csc :((
BT
No worries from this end either. :-))
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
MWD
Loving this good weather!
I had a half day yesterday, cut the grass (I know), cleaned the tiles in the patio with a high pressure thingy.
I was supposed to hang out a washing this morning before I left the house.
Forgot!
I’ll nip home early and stick it in the tumble.
She’ll never know.
Hope you and yours are good!
Make that great!
Traditionalist 88 @ 1231,
Yep. Brian Quinn said that discussions to potential entry into Nationwide as it was then, were at an advanced stage. However the collapse of ITV Digital put paid to that.
Additionally whilst privately and personally several EPL team chairmen/CEO’s etc liked the idea of us and deidco being part of the EPL, there was a unanimous vote to kibosh the idea at the embyonic stage. All knew that at the various positions in that League, us (and apparently “them”) would force 2 teams to lose out whether it be to relegation, Europa Cup/CL places and indeed eventually the Title itself.
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
good afternoon cqn
Thoughts and prayers with Paul Brennan and family,at this difficult time.
Davenelli
13:19 on 12 March, 2014
Top of the class
JP
yes, I will be on best behaviour as Mrs BT and the big yin are going….
Hi Sannabhoy…not going to CQten but will see you The 29th…
HH
Philbhoy
I was supposed to hang out a washing this morning before I left the house.
Forgot!
I’ll nip home early and stick it in the tumble.
She’ll never know.
She’ll know
BT , Ha . TT looking forward to it. Weefra , will reply shortly .
Sanna
BT and sanna
Cheers guys. :-))
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
huskerpunk
12:44 on
12 March, 2014
repost
Good day to any lhouns or qhuines around.
I’m up in Aberdeen next week for a course and am on the lookout for the best place for a spot of the black stuff to toast St Paddy on his special day.
Any recommendations?
……………………………..
O’Donoghues Irish Bar
Justice Mill Lane,
Aberdeen,
AB11 6EP
Phone number: 01224 583178
Email: kathleen@odonoghuesirishbar-aberdeen.co.uk
………………..have a braw time …
E=mc²…………………”First fat Hun appeared !” ……absolute class Huntertainment …aye awfy Braw …..worth a re-post … :)
This was tacked onto the last article and deserves to be seen. It’s a belter!
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ginger
13:15 on 12 March, 2014
An audience with Dave King,could the handsomes not put that on pay per view they’d clean up.the billy Connolly one was always my favourite
Was talking to my brother on the phone this morn.
He was telling me that there was something in the paper about the guy who does the sons of struth blog, is getting threatened by the directors of yon deed co.
They apparently said that if he doesn’t stop saying what he’s saying(the team are playing crap).
Or words to that effect, they will make sure he ends up penny less.
Can anybody shed some light on this please.
The Token Tim
13:30 on
12 March, 2014
Traditionalist 88 @ 1231,
Yep. Brian Quinn said that discussions to potential entry into Nationwide as it was then, were at an advanced stage. However the collapse of ITV Digital put paid to that.
Additionally whilst privately and personally several EPL team chairmen/CEO’s etc liked the idea of us and deidco being part of the EPL, there was a unanimous vote to kibosh the idea at the embyonic stage. All knew that at the various positions in that League, us (and apparently “them”) would force 2 teams to lose out whether it be to relegation, Europa Cup/CL places and indeed eventually the Title itself.
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
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Ties in with an interview Martin O’Neill gave a couple of weeks ago – said that Dermot Desmond had made ‘big inroads’ toward a move …
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/sport/football/Scottish_Football/article1379020.ece
Afternoon all. Repost from this morning.
I have 2 tickets for Friday nights CQN10 party due to unforeseen circumstances. They are for table 11. Me and the wife daughter and partner, sipsini, acgr and johnnythetim will be at table. If anyone is interested in them let me know.
HH
KTF
NEWRADBHOY
It’s all in here,bud.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rangers-fans-claim-been-hit-3232161
Anyone out there interested in a ticket for the CQ10N birthday party.get in touch with me..
The curse of association with a deid club continues as Barry Hughes is jailed for 43 months.